When Mr.Cunningham is about to leave after conversing with Atticus about his entailment, he exhibits his thoughtfulness; influencing Scout to have better compassion. He says to him “‘Let that be the least of your worries, Walter,’” Atticus's effective interactions with other members of Maycomb, such as his conversation with Mr. Cunningham, influence Scout to be more compassionate and understanding of others' situations. After Scout reads Mr.Underwood’s editorial, she realizes how much effort Atticus put into freeing Tom Robinson even though he knew he would lose; causing her to have a better understanding of certain concepts. According to Scout, “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.”
When Scout first appears in the novel, she is a intelligent little girl who sees Maycomb as an old tired town. Throughout the book she has learned that there are different type of folks. Their are poor folks such as the Cunninghams and the Ewells. Walter Cunningham goes to school with Scout in first grade in the beginning of the book. Her first grade teacher Miss Caroline doesn’t know that Walter is poor so she asked why Walter hadn’t brought a lunch.
In Chapter 15 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s compassionate actions eliminate the tension of the lynching mob. She asks to Mr. Cunningham,” Hey, Mr. Cunningham, how’s your entailment gettin’ along?”, which shocks and brings him into an uncomfortable environment (Lee). Scout manages to alleviate the tension of the situation when she began to interrogate Mr. Cunningham about the entailment, which leads him to call off the attempted lynching of Tom Robinson. Scout’s compassion to stop the lynching was clear in the chapter, when she asked Mr. Cunningham about his son, it did not phase him, to when she mentioned how bad entailments are.
After, Atticus says that “you children made [Mr.Cunningham] stand in my shoes for a minute”(204). He saw things differently and convinced the mob to go away for the time
Then Scout tells Mr. Cunningham to say hi to Walter for her. At first Mr. Cunningham was standing straight up and was on a mission. After his face softens and he bends down to Scout and says he will. As he stands up, he tells the mob to move and out and they do. Another possibility that the mob left is that Atticus and the children were physically there.
She resorts to looking in the crowd and seeing Mr. Cunningham. She talks to him like in a normal setting. This shows Scout’s innocence by bringing up Mr. Cunningham son when he is trying to lynch a man. Atticus tries to teach his children his ways and what is going on in the world around them but Scout’s innocence hold her back from
Scout shows bravery when she talks to Mr Cunningham, the leader of a mob trying to kill Tom Robinson. While the mob was attempting to go in the prison where Tom Robinson was, Scout stopped the mob by showing kindness and agape love to Mr. Cunningham, by saying “‘Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment getting along?’” (Lee 175), and talking to him about his son. After Scout acted bravely, Mr. Cunningham acted nicely to Scout, and instructed the mob to
When Scout saw Mr. Cunningham in the mob outside the jail, she started talking to him about his entailments and how it takes a long time to sort things out. This seemingly innocent conversation made Mr. Cunningham think about his family and his
Mr. Cunningham makes the men stand down and leave. This Implies that Scout's naivety causes her to be oblivious to the violent nature of Mr. Cunningham and the rest of the mob, but because of this she has a positive influence on Tom By saving his
So by doing this Scout might have brought him out of his mob mentality state of mind. So mob mentality is what caused the mob to come to the jail in the first place. One persons actions leading to eventually creating a mob. They were going to lynch Tom Robinson, because of mob mentality. But since Scout talked to Mr. Cunningham, this brought him out of his rage, and made him think as an individual and not be forced around in the mob.
Peer pressure heavily influences Maycomb citizens throughout the novel, often pertaining to racism. One night, Jem and Scout go out late in the evening to find Atticus after he leaves the house for an unexplained reason. They find him in front of the jailhouse facing a mob angry about his defense of a Negro named Tom Robinson. In this mob, Scout sees Mr. William Cunningham Sr., the father of a friend at school. She is later upset about the fact that Mr. Cunningham almost hurt Atticus in his hurry to join in with other men in their potentially harmful activities.
Cunningham Scene A person’s ability to put himself in another person’s place and understand why that person may act the way they do, shows one is able to be sympathetic and compassionate towards others. Atticus Finch, a father of two and a lawyer, explains to his daughter, Scout Finch, that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 30). She doesn 't understand the meaning of it all at first, but as she matures throughout the novel, she is exposed to the true meaning of Atticus’ words.
The mob was against Tom Robinson, greatly hating him because of what Mayella had said about him. Fortunately, Mr. Cunningham was part of the mob. He was a feeble man who had to pay people for items from his farm instead of money because he could not afford them. When Jem, Scout, and Dill show up at the jail, Scout reminds Mr. Cunningham of his entailment and how he paid Atticus for it. This embarrasses Mr. Cunningham, and the mob eventually leaves.
Mr. Cunningham and his family own a lot of farmland. In Chapter 2, page 23, Scout described,”Poor farmers who won’t take anything and he won’t get a job with the WPA because he would lose all of his family's land.” In chapter 23 Atticus told us, “It was one of the Cunningham’s that took forever to convince that Tom was guilty.” Mr. Cunningham went from wanting
Late at night in the jailhouse when a group of men joined Atticus, Scout intervened, “”Well, Atticus, I was just sayin’ to Mr. Cunningham that entailments are bad an’ all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you all’d ride it out together…” I was slowly drying up, wondering what idiocy i had committed. Entailments seemed all right enough for livingroom talk,” (Lee 154). Clearly oblivious to the danger the men posed upon herself and everyone else in attendance, Scout talked to Mr. Cunningham as a friend because she knew her father had worked with him before, which fortunately forced him to realized they were all the same, after all they were all neighbors. However, Scout isn’t old enough to comprehend the intensity of the situation and
