To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 16-16

Chapter 17 Summary Mr. Tate takes the witness stand and is asked to explain what happened on the night of November 21st. He says that Bob Ewell brought him to the Ewell house and that he found Mayella badly beaten. Mr. Tate says that she told him that Tom Robinson had raped her, and then Mr. Tate arrested Tom Robinson. Atticus then questions Mr. Tate and asks him about Mayella’s injuries. Atticus asks Mr. Tate which eye was black and after some confusion it is declared that it was her right eye (this turns out to be important).

16.chapter 16/21 the trial of Tom r. starts and people from everywhere go to Maycomb just to watch the trial except miss maudie she refuses to watch she thinks its like a show now. Jem, Scout, and Dill sit in the balcony. While estimony talk with dolphus. Calpurnia comes to courtroom and Mr. Tom Robson gets found guilty and is sent to

Chapter 1: In the first chapter, we are introduced to Jean Louise Finch. She is very often called Scout and she has an older brother named Jem. We discover the past of her family in the chapter.

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 15 In Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, men gather outside the Maycomb jail with the intent of harming Tom Robinson. Thus, this event illustrates how deep-seated racism and injustice has affected Maycomb and Scout, given that the story takes place in Alabama, where Jim Crow laws were actively regulated and where racism was very apparent. The lynching mob that appears in Chapter 15 can also be linked to the Till and Scottsboro cases and how they were handled. For context, in Chapter 15, as Atticus’s trial nears, Tom Robinson has been moved to the county jail, and Atticus stands guard to protect Tom from a supposed lynching mob planning to attack him at night.

In chapter 11 Walter didn’t want to work at the garment center. Walter had wanted to be a lawyer at the age nine. Walter would simply memorize a passage and recited it. A coach had asked Walter to come for track his junior year. In chapter 12 Walter missed three weeks of school. Walter lusted three weeks before he stopped going to school again. In chapter 10 the idea of what it meant to be poor changed in the late sixties. Most of Walter life had been divided between school, reading, and ball playing. The second burden of that summer came in the form of Walter grandfather. William Dean was a tall, ramrod-straight man with mannerisms that seemed more appropriate for the nineteenth century than for 1951. After the civil war the former

“Remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Lee 119). In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, this is the quote that Atticus, one of the main characters, says to his kids. Atticus is a lawyer who takes on a tough case in his town, Maycomb. His kids are Scout, and Jem. Throughout the book, they grow and mature. They don’t mess around with their neighbor, Boo, as much as they used to. But, luckily because of him, they live to see the next day. In To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows that because of prejudice, innocent people can be harmed. This is shown through Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Jem.

Scout claiming the school year going slow for her and her grade is released a half hour earlier than Jems so Scout has to pass by Boo Radley's house real quick by herself every afternoon. One day Scout noticed something shiny in a tree thats in the radly yard. When she goes back to investigate and look she finds a gum. Jem scolds her for taking the gum but Scout keeps checking the knot whole all the time. On the last day of school, her and Jem find coins in the tree and they took them lol Dill comes two days later to spend the summer After a fight with Sc they play a new game they made called Boo Radley which Scout sees as Jem's try to prove his bravery THEY KEEP PLAYING AND HAVING FUN until Atticus finds out about the game. They started

The most important scene in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is at the end of chapter six and the beginning of chapter seven.Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb for the summer. He and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley house and look in through a loose shutter, with Scout accompanying them. Suddenly they see a shadow of a man and flee, hearing a shotgun go off behind them. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard, but Jem’s pants get caught on the fence and he has to kick them off in order to get free. Harper Lee adds this scene to the story to add to our understanding of Boo Radley’s character.

The intriguing novel, To Kill A Mockingbird is written by the prestigious author Harper Lee. Lee has utilised the lifestyle and attitudes towards ‘African-Americans" in the 1930's to create a novel which presents the reader with Lee's attitudes and values. The dominant reading of the novel is focused on the issues of racial prejudice, but there are also a number of other alternative and oppositional readings. Examples of this are the Marxist and feminist readings which can be applied to the text.

Chapter 24:pp306-315 One August day Aunt Alexandra invites her missionary circle to tea. When out of nowhere Atticus appears and ask for Aunt Alexandra to come to the kitchen. In the kitchen Scout, Calpurnia, and Miss Maudie hear that Tom Robinson tried to escape and was shot 7 times and killed. After they hear the news they go back to the missionary circle and act as if they never heard the news. Chapter 25:pp319-323 Jem and Atticus are going to break the news to Tom Robinson’s wife Helen Robinson.

Atticus warns warns Jem to be a gentlemen to Mrs. Dubose. The only reason he said that is because she is old and sick. Jem takes a baton from Scout and destroys all of Mrs. Dubose’s bushes. He gets punished and has to go to her house everyday for a month to read to her. Mrs. Dubose throws fits after every reading session.

In chapter 9, Tom and Sid are told to go to bed. At exactly ten o'clock, Tom sneaks out of bed and goes to the graveyard with Huck. Tom finds huck with his dead cat, and they go and hide behind some bushes, close to Hoss Williams grave. Tom and Huck see a light in the distance. They thought the light was spirits or ghosts. Then light got closer to Tom and Huck they saw that it was no other than Doctor Robinson accompanied by the town outcasts Injun Joe and drunken Muff Potter. Dr. Robinson told Muff potter and Injun joe to dig up the corpse for the use of medical experiments. After finishing up the job, potter demands extra payments, Robinson disagrees. Injun joe reminds Doctor Robinson of what happened in past years . Injun joe's came to

Summary: Scout and Jem are the most dynamic characters (but they are not the only ones). As a result of the events, Scout and Jem gain a new awareness of who they are and the cruelty as well as the kindness of humanity. I think the very last few lines of the book will help you with this. Note that the book takes place over several years. Look through the chapter summaries online and sort of chart how they grow. In the beginning they are just kids; they are curious about Boo, someone different from them who they never see, and in their childish way, they are a little cruel. As they grow up, they learn that everything is not as it appears. The old lady who Jem has to look after is not as her cruel exterior would have you believe; she is merely a poor old woman with a morphine addiction. Atticus seems to be the gentlest creature alive, but he kills that rabid dog when he has to, without ever telling the children he knows how to shoot. They learn about cruelty the Tom Robinson trial and the plight of the Ewells. And they learn that they, too, can work to make the world a better place. In the end, they understand just why it would be cruel to make Boo Radley suffer any kind of scandal.

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, one cannot equate the story to have a sole purpose from the author throughout. Rather the story contains many scenes and passages that have meanings in themselves. In the book, one passage where Harper Lee expresses a clear purpose is where the children meet Dolphus Raymond. The purpose of the passage with Dolphus Raymond was to show the effects that prejudice can have on individuals as well as the community.

The story, in the eyes of two innocent children Scout and her brother Jem, of the discrimination and hypocrisy throughout the town. Maycomb County, Alabama, faces an African American’s injustice while the children learn valuable lessons from their father, Atticus and their housemaid Calpurnia, during the Great Depression. All the while, we are learning from it. To Kill a Mockingbird teaches us the lessons of morale, justice and equality.