Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
I say this because, the quotation marks are in the correct areas of what we are reading. Not behind, or before. The punctuation is also correct and things are capitalized as needed.