The Academy Award winning screenplay was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Horton Foote from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee - who had written a semi-autobiographical account of her small-town Southern life (Monroeville, Alabama), her widower father/attorney Amasa Lee, and its setting of racial unrest.There he is to this day, sittin' over there with his scissors...Lord knows what he's doin' or thinkin'.When the town clock strikes five, Jem and Scout run down the street to meet Atticus.On the way to town, Jem spins another cautionary tale about another neighbor - Mrs.Henry Lafayette Dubose, a peculiar, elderly woman who sits on her porch in a wheelchair and is cared for by a black woman named Jessie:Listen, no matter what she says to you, don't answer her back.The truth came out: Kirby and Amanda were a divorced couple searching for their son Eric and Amanda's boyfriend Ben (from the film's opening scene)...for much deeper and bigger problems.He's a very disturbed young man."Loomis proposed a series of tests and evaluations, as Michael snuck away from the office, and then wearing his clown mask and using a large tree limb, bludgeoned a pleading Wesley o death(# 1 death)as he walked home through a wooded area.