To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1 Title Scouting
To Kill A Mockingbird
Chapter 1 • Title: Scouting the story • Summary: meet the Finch family (Scout, Jem, Atticus), mother died when Scout was two. Maycomb is introduced. Dill comes to visit and tells the story of Boo Radley. • Quote: “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm broken at the elbow” (1) • Foreshadowing…‘got’
Chapter 2 • Title: Scout vs. Miss Caroline • Summary: Dill leaves Maycomb that September; Scout goes to school but does not like her teacher, Miss Caroline (she makes her feel guilty about being educated). Miss Caroline offers to buy Walter Cunningham lunch, but he refuses. Scout explains that they never take anything they cannot repay. • Quote: “The Cunninghams never took anything they can’t pay back…They never took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have” (26).
Chapter 3 • Title: Homeschooled? • Summary: Scout is angry with Walter for getting her in trouble. Jem comes and stops his sister and invites Walter to their house for lunch. As Walter is talking to Atticus, Scout criticizes the way he eats but is soon scolded by Calpurnia. The next day, the teacher is scared of the bugs in Burris Ewell’s hair. Burris barely goes to school, only to avoid trouble with the law. After school, Atticus asks Scout what’s wrong and she says she wants him to teach her. Although he says that it is illegal, he promises to read to her each night if she keeps quiet. • Quote: “If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away” (Lee 37).
Chapter 4 Title: A Fascination with the Radley House Summary: On her walk home from school, Scout finds chewing gum hidden in a tree on the Radley property. When Jem discovers where the gum is from, he is slightly apprehensive. On their last day of school, Jem and Scout find two “Indian-head” pennies in the same tree, and wonder who they belong to (They decide to keep the pennies until school starts again). Scout’s friend Dill comes to Maycomb for the summer, so Scout, Jem, and Dill play games of makebelieve together. Jem comes up with a game that enacts rumors about the Radleys. Quote: “Mrs. Radley had been beautiful until she married Mr. Radley and lost all her money. She also lost most of her teeth, her hair, and her right forefinger (Dill’s contribution. Boo bit it off one night when he couldn’t find any cats and squirrels to eat. ); she sat in the living room and cried most of the time, while Boo slowly whittled away all the furniture in the house” (44). Atticus catches on to what the kids are playing and disapproves, so Scout wishes to stop playing the Boo Radley game. (The “hot steams” and the laughing Scout recalls are also important to this chapter. )
Chapter 5 Title: Summary: Dill and Jem begin to hang around each other more, excluding Scout because she is a girl. Consequently, Scout spends more time with their neighbor, Miss Maudie, a cheerful woman with a love of gardening. Scout asks Miss Maudie about Boo (Arthur) Radley, to which she replies that he is alive, he does not want to come out, and she doesn’t quite know the reason why (“that is a sad house”). Meanwhile, Jem and Dill inform Scout of their plan to send a letter to Boo asking for him to come out. Atticus gets hold of the letter and scold all three of them. Quote: “What Mr. Radley did might seem peculiar to us, but it did not seem peculiar to him…we were to stay away from that house until we were invited there, we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing, or make fun of anybody…” (55)
Chapter 6 • Title: “The Contest” • Summary: Scout and friends see Mr. Avery across the street start to urinate in the light of the streetlamp. This leads the boys to have a literal pissing contest. They go to peep into the Radley house, and they sneak into the yard. When Dill doesn't see anything, they try the back window, where they nearly get caught by Nathan Radley. Nathan fires his shotgun, assuming that the children are really an African American man who is trespassing. The town, hearing the gunshot, comes out into the street. Dill makes up a lie about winning Jem's pants while playing strip poker. Later that night, Jem goes back for his pants but refuses to let Scout come with him. • Quote: “Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them. (69)
Chapter 7 • Title: Jem’s Pants • Summary: Jem is in a bad mood for a week. Scout starts second grade. Scout feels second grade is just as bad as 1 st. Jem finally tells Scout what happened when he went back to the Radley House: his pants were folded up on top of the fence, and the tear in them had been sloppily mended. By the knothole tree, they see a ball of twine resting inside it. When the twine is still there after a few days, Jem takes it. A few months later, the knothole holds their best find yet: two figures carved out of soap that looks like Scout and Jem. Scout throws them on the ground, thinking about voodoo dolls, but Jem rescues them. The knothole haul keeps getting better and better: a whole pack of chewing gum, a spelling bee medal, and a broken pocket watch (which Jem tries but fails to fix). Scout and Jem decide to write a letter to their secret benefactor. But the next day, they find that the knothole has been filled with cement. Jem stakes out Mr. Nathan and asks why. Mr. Nathan says that the tree's sick and the cement is an attempt to cure it. • Quote: “Dear sir, ” said Jem. “We appreciate the -no, we appreciate everything which you have put into the tree for us. “Yours very truly, Jeremy Atticus Finch. ”” (Lee 69)
Chapter 8 • Title: • Summary: Old Mrs. Radley dies as the season becomes winter. Barely anyone acknowledges her death, so Jem asks Atticus if he’s seen Mr. Arthur, to which he replies he hasn’t. Scout wakes and screams when she sees it snowing outside. Scout and Jem have never seen snow because it hasn’t snowed since 1885. Jem and Scout decide to make a snowman out of Miss Maudie’s snow. Later, at around 1, Scout was woken by Atticus when Miss Maudie’s house was on fire. Scout and Jem stand in front of the Radley Place and watch Mr. Avery to get out of the window. When the fire died down, they went back across the street. A blanket was draped across Scout’s shoulders without her or Jem noticing. • Quote: “Jem seemed to have lost his mind. He began pouring out our secrets right and left in total disregard for my safety if not for his own, omitting nothing, knothole, pants and all” (96). • “Atticus said dryly, “Do not let this inspire you to further glory, Jeremy. ”” (96).
Chapter 9 • Title: An Eventful Christmas with the Finch's • Summary: Scout gets confronted by Cecil Jacobs in their school yards saying that her dad defends black people. She goes home to Atticus and asks him if it's true and why he does. First Atticus scolds Scout not to use the N word. Scout tells Atticus that everyone at their school does and tries to get out of school because of that reason. Atticus is defending a black person named Tom Robinson who lives near the town dump. He goes to Calpurnia's church. After Scout and Atticus talks. There is a time skip to a Christmas setting. Atticus's brother Jack Finch arrives in town and stays with them. Scout encounters Cecil Jacobs again but avoided the fight. At dinner Uncle Jack scolds Scout about swearing and how young people swear to get attention. Christmas morning Scout and Jem received air rifles. Atticus takes them to Finch's Landing. There they meet Francis who Scout thinks is boring. Francis starts calling Atticus a N*** lover. Scout defends Atticus but she doesn't fight him (yet) keeping the promise she made to Atticus. But then starts beating on Francis until Uncle Jack grabbed her. At the end of the Chapter Scout hears Atticus say that Tom Robinson is Innocent but doomed. • Quote: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win" -Atticus, (Lee 101)
Chapter 10 • Title: The Mad Dog • Summary: Scout is talking about how Atticus is different from other dads in Maycomb because he wears glasses and reads instead of going out to hunt or fish, he is a more sophisticated man. On Saturday Jem and Scout go exploring to find some squirrels and rabbits. Scout notices Jem is glancing at something in the distance. They soon realize it is a dog, they go back home and tell Calpurnia. She doesn’t believe them at first but then goes to take a look for herself. She runs back inside and calls Mr. Finch’s (Atticus) office. Atticus and Mr. Heck Tate (the sheriff of Maycomb) arrive. They both see the dog, Atticus takes the rifle from Tate and shoots the dog with one shot. Later on Miss Maudie tells Jem and Scout that Atticus was the best shot in the country back then. Jem then declares that Atticus never told them this. • Quote: ”d you see him, Scout? ‘ d you see him just standing there? . . . ’n’ all of a sudden he just relaxed all over, an it looked like that gun was a part of him…” (129).
Chapter 11 • Title: Time Flies • Summary: On the way into town, one day Jem and Scout encounter Ms. Dubose who yells insulting comments to them every time they pass by. When they passed this day Ms. Dubose says something that really made Jem angry so he took the baton that he bought scout and destroyed all of her camellia bushes. As a punishment for his actions Jem had to go to Ms. Dubose’s house every day for a month and read to her. Scout joins Jem on his trips to Ms. Dubose’s house and they notice that each day it gets longer and each day at the end of the reading she yells unpleasant things at them. At the end of the chapter Ms. Dubose dies and leaves Jem a box with a camellia flower in it. • Quote: "I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody. . . I'm hard put, sometimes —baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. "(lee 144)
Chapter 12 • Title: Going to Church • Summary: While Atticus is out of town, Jem and Scout attend Calpurnia’s Church. As an all African American church, the patrons are shocked at seeing white folks in attendance. One lady named Lula doesn’t believe they belong there and thinks they should leave. Everyone else welcomes them into their Church. Jem and Scout soon see the similarities between Calpurnia’s church and their own church from the preaching of the pastor. Scout questions why no one has hymn books. Calpurnia explains to her that most all African Americans can’t read. Scout realizes that Calpurnia talks differently amongst her fellow African Americans. Scout learns a little more about Tom Robinson from Reverend Sykes. On the way home from church that afternoon, they find Aunt Alexandra waiting for them on the porch in a rocking chair. • Quote: “You aint got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal? ” (158)
Chapter 13 • Title: The Mean Aunt • Summary: In the beginning of the chapter, Aunt Alexandra arrives at the Finch's residences to stay with the family. Aunt Alexandra’s purpose of staying was to talk to the kids, Jem and Scout, about what is really like to be a Finch. Aunt Alexandra had high expectations about how they conducted themselves in front of people, and how they would dress. The aunt also gave them a little bit of a history lesson about Maycomb and how that everyone is similar to each other because cousins would marry cousins. Scout doesn't really believe what Aunt Alexandra is saying until at night when Atticus came into their room, and talked about how Aunt Alexandra is really wanting them to follow her ways of living. Atticus also included that the kids are “gentle breeding” meaning that they are supposed to be the best of all generations. This is when Scout began to cry because she didn’t understand how Atticus could agree with what Aunt Alexandra had said. • Quote: “she asked me to tell you, you must try to behave like the little lady and gentleman that you are. She wants to talk to you about the family and what it’s meant to Maycomb County through the years, so you’ll have to have some idea of who you are, so you might be moved to behave accordingly” (151)
Chapter 14 • Title: Dill Returns • Summary: The townspeople are still talking about the Finch family and Scout overheard someone talking about rape. She then asks Atticus what it is and that Calpurnia would not explain it to her. Aunt Alexandra interrupts their conversation and Scout talks back. She hides in the bathroom after being scolded by Atticus and hears Aunt Alexandra talking about how they did not need Calpurnia anymore. Atticus defends Calpurnia and says they do need her. That night Scout and Jem get into a fist fight and then they make up. They go to bed and Scout finds Dill hiding under her bed. At night Dill makes his way over to Scout’s bed in order to talk to her and then they both fall asleep. They talk about Dill running away from his mom and her new boyfriend and how he didn’t feel wanted. At the end Scout asks Dill why Boo didn’t run away and he says maybe he doesn’t have a place to run to. • Quote: “ Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies ” (192).
Chapter 15 • Title: Protecting Tom • Summary: Heck Tate, the sheriff, go to the Finches’ house and team Atticus that Tom Robinson is being moved to the jail in Macomb, and then proceeds to say this might stir up trouble (aka lynching). Atticus goes to the jail at night to protect Tom, and the kids plus Dill follow him. After spotting their Dad, a group of men approach. Scout runs over, probably thinking it was the same group that came to their house earlier. Atticus tells the kids to leave, but Jem refuses. Scout sees Mr. Cunningham in the group and tells him to say hi to Walter (from her school). Her innocence helps Mr. Cunningham to calm down, and he orders the group to leave. After this quarrel is over, Mr. Underwood comes out with a rifle, supposedly having the job of a sniper if things for messy. Instead of being mad at Jem for following him, he gives him affection. • Quote: “Get some sleep Tom. They won't bother you any more. ” “You’re damn tootin’ they won’t. Had you covered all the time, Atticus, ” (175)
Chapter 16 • Title: The Beginning of the Trial • Summary: The morning after they get back from the mob scene at the jailhouse, at breakfast the family was discussing the events that happened the night before. The aunt felt that it was a disgrace that the kids went out the night before but Atticus was happy they showed up. Jem describes to Dill about Mr. Dolphus Raymond who prefers to live with the African Americans. Trial begins on that day as people pass in front of their home on the way to the courthouse. Jem describes all the different town folk showing up to watch the trial. The kids sneak in to the courthouse in order to hide from Atticus and sit with Reverend Sykes in the top balcony with the African Americans. • Quote: “It was a gala occasion” p (214) Everyone had lost sight of the real reason they are there and they are acting as if a man’s life isn’t on the line. No one seems to care about the fate of Tom Robinson.
Chapter 17 • Title: Innocent or Guilty? • Summary: The trial of Tom Robinson begins with Heck Tate on the stand. He describes that on the night of November 21 st Bob Ewell called him over to his house, where he found his daughter, Mayella Ewell, badly beaten. Mr. Tate then asked who did it and he replied with Tom Robinson, who was later identified and arrested. Atticus starts questioning him asks him 3 times if he called the doctor and each time he responds with no, but gave a detailed description Mayella's injuries. Scout becomes bored with case because she thinks there's not enough drama and it’s not what she expected it to be. Meanwhile, Bob Ewell gives a slightly different story from Mr. Tate by saying he saw Tom Robinson rape Mayella through the window. The courthouse then erupts in loud outcry and Judge Taylor demands for spectators to clear out. Atticus then asks Ewell to write his name for which Atticus notices that he’s left handed and suspects that he beat his daughter given that her injuries were on her right side. • Quote: “He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. ”- I see that black n*** yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (231)
Chapter 17 • Title: Innocent or Guilty? • Summary: The trial of Tom Robinson begins with Heck Tate on the stand. He describes that on the night of November 21 st Bob Ewell called him over to his house, where he found his daughter, Mayella Ewell, badly beaten. Mr. Tate then asked who did it and he replied with Tom Robinson, who was later identified and arrested. Atticus starts questioning him asks him 3 times if he called the doctor and each time he responds with no, but gave a detailed description Mayella's injuries. Scout becomes bored with case because she thinks there's not enough drama and it’s not what she expected it to be. Meanwhile, Bob Ewell gives a slightly different story from Mr. Tate by saying he saw Tom Robinson rape Mayella through the window. The courthouse then erupts in loud outcry and Judge Taylor demands for spectators to clear out. Atticus then asks Ewell to write his name for which Atticus notices that he’s left handed and suspects that he beat his daughter given that her injuries were on her right side. • Quote: “He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. ”- I see that black n*** yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (231)
Chapter 19 • Title: Same Story? • Summary: The chapter starts off with Mayella on that stands telling her side of the story. At first Jem and Scout think she might have some problems but brush it off. She tells her side of the story and then Atticus starts his questions. He begins by asking about her family life where we get a picture of how the family is very poor and how the father was a heavy drinker. He then moves on and goes step by step through the story. Mayella starts to contradict herself and changes the story and she also goes in and out of being able to remember what happened. We find out that Tom has a dead left arm when the bruises were on the right side of her face. Atticus asks how none of her 8 family members heard her screaming and she has no good excuse for this. When she gets caught up she tries to pick a fight with Atticus or tries to cause a scene. Judge Taylor calls for a ten minute break and no one leaves because they want to see what happens with the case. The chapter ends with Atticus calling his one witness up to the stands. • Quote: “Now, said Atticus, Miss Mayella, you’ve testified that the defendant choked and beat you-you didn’t say he sneaked up behind you and knocked you cold, but you turned around and there he was-” (249)
Chapter 20 • Title: Atticus’ Speech • Summary: Mr. Dolphus Raymond offers Dill a drink from his paper bag to which Scout assumes to be alcohol. Dill reveals it to be just Coca-Cola and Raymond explains that he pretends to be an alcoholic to those who despise his lifestyle to provide an excuse to live how he’s portrayed. Dill and Scout return to the court and witness the last part to Atticus’ speech. He takes off his jacket, unbuttons his shirt which Jem and Scout find unusual for him to do. Atticus says that no evidence was given that supports that Tom Robinson raped Mayella. He concludes that Mayella performed acts of affection toward Tom considering her loneliness. Upon her realization that she committed an immoral act according to society, she covers up her guilt in accusing him of rape. Atticus finishes by quoting Thomas Jefferson that all me are created equal. After Atticus gives his speech, Calpurnia appears walking toward him down the courtroom. • Quote: “She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and timehonored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance” (Lee 271). Despite her filing a false rape accusation, Atticus empathetic enough to see her as a victim. Atticus sees right through race and looks at inner character.
Chapter 21 • Title: The Verdict • Summary: Calpurnia comes into court, handing a note from Aunt Alexandra to Atticus which revealed Jem, Scout and Dill are missing. Mr. Underwood said they’re sitting in the balcony and has been there all afternoon. Atticus told them to go home, eat dinner and agree that they can come back. When they got back, it was the same as before, silent and they waited patiently. Jem said they’ve won the case but Reverend Sykes say he has never seen colored man won a case against white man. Jury enters, not making eyes contact with Tom Robinson and verdict is guilty. Atticus leaves, everyone in the balcony stood up to honor him. • Quote: “Jem smiled. ‘He’s not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don’t fret, we’ve won it, ’ he said wisely. ’ Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard’”(279). -Because of Jem’s youthfulness and innocence he doesn’t understand that even with evidence, colored people would most likely be guilty, especially with an all white jury and a white judge.
Chapter 22 • Title: The aftermath • Summary: Jem cries over Atticus’s failure in proving Tom Robinson innocence. Atticus Scout and Jem return home, the next morning they wake up to a bunch of food in the kitchen. The father of Tom Robinson delivered the food to the Finch’s house. This causes Atticus to tear up. Miss Stephanie questions the kids about the trial. Jem talks about how he thought the people in Maycomb were good but after the trial he thinks the opposite. Miss Maudie tells him that they are making progress and that some people tried to help. Mr. Ewell spit on Atticus and swore to get revenge for Atticus’ defending Tom Robinson. • Quote: “‘I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown, ’” said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. ‘Yes sir, a clown, ’ he said. “There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. ’” (Lee 289). This quote shows how the kids are learning about the world and how they’re too innocent to understand how people could be so horrible.
Chapter 23 • Title: Legal Prejudice • Summary: Bob Ewell threatens Atticus’ life which leaves Jem and Scout worried. Although, Atticus believes Ewell to only be ventilating his anger out on him and nothing bad will occur now that he has gotten it out of his system. Atticus says that Tom Robinson’s case will be reviewed by a higher court and that he will probably at least be retried, but if not he will proceed to the electric chair. Jem and Atticus engage in a discussion about the unfairness in the court system. Atticus explains that in court, a white person always has the upper hand against a black person and that those are just the ugly facts of life. Atticus then says that one of the Cunningham's did defend Tom Robinson. Scout then decides she wants to invite the young Walter Cunningham for dinner but Aunt Alexandra steps in and prohibits her from doing so. She says that they do not associate with lower class Cunninghams. Scout becomes infuriated and Jem takes her to his room to calm down. Jem concludes that there are Maycomb consists of four kinds of people: the Finches who hate the Cunninghams, who hate the Ewells, who hate African-Americans. Upon wondering why hatred runs between these groups, Jem speculates that maybe that is why Boo Radley stays inside. • Quote: “There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried… The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. ” The court system is supposed to be fair and not favor a particular race. However society in the south is so corrupt that prejudice is implemented into the courtroom giving whites and undeserving advantage.
Chapter 24 • Title: Tea and Shots • Summary: Aunt Alexandra has her missionary circle over for tea and Calpurnia helps bring in the tea. Scout isn’t wearing her normal attire, but in a dress. Scout listens in to the missionary circle talking about a poor African group converting to Christianity. On top of that, they talked about how their African American servants have been behaving poorly since the Tom Robinson trial. Miss Maudie butts in with icy remarks to quiet the ladies and then Atticus comes in and calls Alexandra to the kitchen. He tells Alexandra, Calpurnia and Miss Maudie that Tom Robinson was shot seventeen times upon trying to escape. Calpurnia goes to tell the Robinson family of Tom’s death. Alexandra asks Miss Maudie how Atticus is allowed to wreck himself for the sake of justice to which Miss Maudie replies that it is because the town trusts him. In the end, Scout returns to the circle and acts as if nothing happened. • Quote: "There's one thing I truly believe, Gertrude, " she continued, "but some people just don't see it my way. If we just let them know we forgive 'em, that we've forgotten it, then this whole thing'll blow over. " (24. 40) Atticus tells Mrs. Merriweather to see through other’s eyes and in the way they see things but Mrs. Merriweather is concerned about having people see through her point of view. She thinks of it as that the African Americans were to be forgiven and that it shows Mrs. Merriweather is hardly compassionate and one -sided.
Chapter 25 • Title: Tough News • Summary: So Scout and Jem are still sleeping out on the back porch. Scout finds a roly-poly bug and started playing with it and rolling it around. Right before killing it Jem stopped her and began feeling sympathetic for the bug. So Scout made fun of Jem and commented how he was being like a girl. Then Scout started thinking about what Dill said before he left. Atticus Jem and Scout went to see Helen Robinson to give her the news and watched her heart shatter. The news about Tom’s death gave Macomb something to talk about. Most white men began talking about African Americans and their stereotypes. As well as Mr. Underwood's story is shows the racist about the court case and made it a joke, and everyone gets that paper it’s the only one in town. Miss Stephanie also speaks out about how Mr. Ewell says one down, two to go to the news of Tom’s death. • Quotes: Scout Began wondering after reading Mr. Underwood’s Story and thought, “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed”(Lee 323). I believe this quote is important because Scout really understands this big racism reality white men are inflicting on people.
Chapter 26 • Title: Equality • Summary: For Jem and Scout school is back and they pass the Radley Place every day. Since they go by everyday Scout wishes to see Boo Radley just once. At School Miss Gates (Third grade teacher) begins a lecture to the class on Hitler’s persecution of the Jews and brings up equality. Scout later asks Jem how Miss Gates can talk about equality because when she was walking from the courthouse she told Miss Stephanie Crawford that it was about time that someone taught the blacks in town a lesson. Jem then becomes angry and tells Scout never to mention the trial to him again. • Quote: Scout asked Jem about Miss Gates and Scout Said, “I heard her say it’s time somebody taught ’ em a lesson”( Lee 331)
Chapter 27 • Title: Calm Before the Storm • Summary: By October, Bob Ewell acquired a job at WPA but lost it for his laziness. He accuses Atticus getting his job. Judge Taylor hear scratching in his back door, he saw a shadow disappeared. Link Deas gave Helen Robinson a job, on her way to work, Bob Ewell follows and curses. Link Deas threatened Ewell. Aunt Alexandra believed Bob Ewell has a grudge against everybody connected to the case. Atticus said Ewell will settle down when weather changes. Scout recalled during Halloween, when the kids took furnitures from two deaf ladies and hid them in basement. They suggested on a Halloween Pageant, which Scout dresses up as a ham and Jem takes Scout. • Quote: “‘ You don't have to touch her, all you have to do is make her afraid, an' if assault ain't enough to keep you locked up awhile, I'll get you in on the Ladies' Law, so get outa my sight! If you don't think I mean it, just bother that girl again!"’(334) Explanation: Ewell is trying to use fear and power to scare Helen, but since Deas has a more powerful reputation in Maycomb, he isn’t successful. Mr. Deas sees what Mr. Ewell is actually trying to do and protects Helen from him since he wasn’t able to do that with Tom.
Chapter 28 • Title: • Summary: The chapter starts off with Jem and Scout heading to school in their costumes and along the way, Cecil Jacobs jumps out from the darkness and scares the two. After that, Scout and Cecil wander around, even going to the haunted house in the seventhgrade class room and even gathering some homemade candy. The pageant starts but Scout had fallen asleep and missed her entrance. Judge Taylor and the others began to laugh at her and the person running it said Scout ruined the pageant. To which it made Scout quite upset about the ordeal. On the way home, Jem hears someone behind them and thinking it was Cecil again, he tried calling him out. Soon after, their pursuer started chasing after them and while Jem shouts at Scout to run, she falls because of her costume. She loses Jem and stumbles home to where she finds a man carrying Jem. Heck Tate had been called in by Atticus and when Heck Tate emerges, he tells Atticus that Bob Ewell was found dead under a tree with a knife in his ribcage. • Quote: “Bob Ewell’s lyin’ on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He's dead, Mr. Finch” (pg. 357). This is the turning point in the story where we learn who the attacker was and how he was killed. It could have been an ally or even Jem that killed Bob Ewell. It gives it a sense of mystery to who protected the two.
Chapter 29 • Title: Boo Radley, The Survivor • Summary: The whole chapter is the aftermath of the near fatal attack on Scout and Jem by Bob Ewell. Heck Tate also informs Atticus that Bob is indeed dead. Dr. Reynolds & Heck are tending to Jem while Scout explains what she remembers happening. Sheriff Tate asks Scout if she knows who saved them, and she finally realizes that it was Boo Radley who saved them. • Quote: "When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked him thumbs in his belt. A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo' I said" (362). ( We chose this quote because it shows how Boo Radley saved Scout and Jem’s lives from Bob Ewell who is looking for revenge after Atticus and had the plan to kill the two people he cherished the most)
Chapter 30 • Title: • Summary: Heck Tate and Atticus went onto the porch of the house to discuss what had happened. Atticus is already thinking about the trial of Jem because he believes that Jem killed Bob Ewell. But Heck wants to save all of the grief of a trial and everything specially because it would be a trial about manslaughter so he told Atticus that Bob fell on his own knife killing himself. Heck says that Tom died innocently so, the killer of him dying; is just. • Quote: “ Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it? ” - Scout (370). I chose this because I resembles and ties into together with Tom Robinson and Boo with both of them being innocent and if Boo were to go to trial and be jailed or killed, it would be like killing a mockingbird. Same goes for Tom Robinson.
Chapter 31 • Title: Growing Up With Acceptance • Summary: Scout asks Mr. Arthur (Arthur “Boo” Radley) if he would like to say goodnight to Jem due to all of the startling events that had occurred [in chapters 28 -30]. So, Scout leads Arthur down the hall of their house where they encounter Aunt Alexandra who notifies Arthur that Dr. Reynolds has administered Jem a heavy sedative to help him. Arthur then drifts off into a distant corner in the room which is when Scout comes up and takes Arthur by the hand notices its warmth, and leads him to Jem’s bed, where he is asleep. After Arthur saw Jem, he got uneasy and Scout felt that Arthur wanted to leave and so she leads him out onto the front porch. As Arthur and Scout stood on the front porch, Scout felt that Arthur would not let her hand go, which lead to Arthur asking if Scout would walk him home. So, Scout slips her hand into the crook of Arthur’s arm and they walked along the street down to the Radley house. On Scout’s walk with Arthur to Arthur’s house, she notices many things at night that appear to be new to her, as they stop at an oak tree and then continued on to finally leave Arthur on his porch, as Scout returned to home. Scout wanted to stay awake as long as she possibly could but succumbed to her drowsiness and fell asleep. • Quote: “. . . you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” (374). This just shows how Scout is trying to imagine how Boo Radley lived, and that Atticus is saying you can’t really contradict someone you don't know until you lived like them.
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