Chapter 15
8. When Atticus says that the Klan is gone, he is incorrect because although there may not be any official “Ku Klux Klan,” there will always be people whose ideas about races differ from the ones around them, and sooner or later, they will start to band together and form something similar to the Ku Klux Klan. For example, when Atticus was at the jail, a mob of drunken men had come in order to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. This mob could represent ideas similar to the Ku Klux Klan at that time.
Chapter 16
9. I think Mr. Underwood was covering Atticus at the jail because he is familiar with Atticus and doesn’t want to see him get seriously injured. Another reason I think he was protecting Atticus at the jail was that he may have wanted to get the story of the trial of a white man defending a colored man and he didn’t want to have his story ruined by a mob who would kill Atticus to get to his headline person.
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Mr. Dolphus Raymond is seen to be already drunk early in the morning. He also sits with the colored people at the courthouse square because he was said to marry with a white woman, but was caught with one of his colored woman. He also is seen in the story to be drinking out of a brown paper bag with two straws which is supposed to be whiskey. He sits with the colored people because he “married” a colored woman and had mixed children with her, which he loves, and prefers the colored people over the white people. His effect on the town makes the people question and wonder how and if white and color people mix and diffuse together. Especially because Mr. Dolphus Raymond sits with the colored folks and loves his mixed children, he breaks the “clear cut” rules and boundaries socially for