To Kill a Mockingbird Guided Notes Chapter 17
To Kill a Mockingbird Guided Notes
Chapter 17 • The trial begins with the testimony of the town sherriff, Mr. Heck Tate (222) Highlight: Mr. Heck Tate and Mr. Gilmer • Tate tells his version of the events: entered Ewell house and found Mayella on the floor, beaten (223) “Mr. Tate said…raped his girl…Found her lying…Robinson…” • Atticus questions Tate: a doctor was not called, M. was beaten on right side, and choked (225226) “Well, she was beaten…”
Chapter 17 cont. • Mr. Bob Ewell is the next witness (look at passage on page 227) “Every town the size of Maycomb…Negro cabin. ” • Only thing Ewell has over the blacks was. . . that he was white under all the filth (229) “All the little man…” • Mr. Ewell recounts incident (230 -1) • Atticus questions him: no doctor, and he’s left-handed (237) “You’re lefthanded…which he did. ”
Chapter 18 • Mayella Ewell takes witness stand, cried, “scared of Atticus” (240) “Mayella stared at him and…” • Tells her version of incident: Tom Robinson did a job for her, she walked into house for money to pay him, and he jumped her; father arrived and TR ran away (241 -2) “I said come here…agin” • Atticus asked questions to reveal her home life (244) “Slowly but surely…them at home. ”
Chapter 18 cont. • TR stands after Mayella claims he was the man who raped her, he has a dead left hand (248) “His left arm was fully…” • Intense! (250 -1)
Chapter 19 • Tom Robinson takes the stand, his left hand doesn’t function, admits to previous trouble with the law: has nothing to hide (254) “Tom was twenty-five…cut me. ” • TR tells his version of the incident: passed Ewell house on way to work, helped M. E. with work for free bc she had no one else (255 -6) “Mr. Finch, it was way last spring…way over a year ago. ” • Scout thinks M. E. loneliest person in world (256) “As Tom Robinson gave his testimony…because she was white. ”
Chapter 19 cont. • On that day, M asked T to enter to fix something that wasn’t broken, very quiet, she closed the door, he tries to leave, but she asks him to reach for a box, he does, and then she grabs his legs! She jumps on him! She hugged him! She tries to kiss him! (259 -60) • Mr. Ewell arrived on the scene, threatended T and T ran (261)
Chapter 19 cont. • Mr. Gilmer (prosecutor) questions T in a condescending way (264 -5) • Dill starts to cry, and leaves with Scout, it made him sick (266) *symbol of empathy
Chapter 20 • Mr. Dolphus Raymond, known as town drunk bc he drinks from a brown paper bag + straw, married to black woman and has mixed children • He offers Dill a sip. . . it’s Coca-Cola (267) • Gives them life lessons (268 -9)
Chapter 20 cont. • Atticus’s closing arguments: AMAZING! (271 -275)
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