Chapter 26: School starts back up again and people are still talking about the trial. Now when Scout and Jem pass by the Radley house they aren’t as scared of it as they used to be because they are now older. That day in school Scout’s third grade teacher Miss. Gates talks about how awful Hitler was and the persecution of the Jews. Scout questions her teacher about how she can talk about equality for all when after Tom’s trial she said it was about time someone taught the blacks in town a lesson. Jem is still sensitive about the trial and after Scout tells him he becomes angry with her and tells her that she shouldn’t talk about it anymore. Chapter 27: Bob Ewell is crossing the line day after day. Judge Taylor hears someone prowling around outside and he suspects that it is Bob Ewell. Bob Ewell also follows Tom’s wife Helen to work and he whispers rude remarks to her but Bob stops after Deas threatens to have him arrested. Aunt Alexandria suspects that Bob Ewell is holding a grudge against everyone involved in the case. Chapter 28: …show more content…
Scout misses her entrance for the pageant and runs onstage at the end causing the audience to burst out laughing, because of this the woman in charge of the pageant accuse Scout of ruining it. On the way back home Jem continues to hear different noises behind him and they conclude that it is probably Cecil Jacobs trying to scare them again. Bob Ewell runs at them from behind and begins to attack the children, all of the sudden Bob is pulled away and when Scout feels for Jem she finds a figure of an unshaven man who smells like whisky. Looking for Jem, she sees a man carrying Jem to the house and it turns out the man is Boo Radley. Heck Tate tells everyone that he found Bob Ewell dead with a knife stuck under his