To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 11-15 Summary

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-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES):
In chapter 11 Jem got mad and he trashed Ms. Dubose’s house. His punishment for doing this was to read to Ms. Dubose every day. Scout is disappointed when she finds out that Dill is not coming back and that he says he has a new father. But one night Scout finds Dill and he’s there because he ran away from home because his parents didn’t pay enough attention to him.

-Summary for Ch. 16-20 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES):

The trial for Tom Robinson begins. Mr Ewell takes the stand in the Tom Robinson trial. He acts ignorant and tries to make jokes and stuff. Next, Mayella Ewell takes the stand and
Atticus humiliates the way her family lives with seven children and an alcoholic father. The Tom …show more content…

21-25 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES):

The verdict of the jury is announced and Tom Robinson is guilty of rape. Miss maudie then tells that Bob Ewell spat on Atticus and swore revenge on him. Later in the story, Atticus comes home one day and tells the kids that Tom Robinson has been shot and killed. However, the community didn’t even care. They simply just forgot about him and didn’t feel any sadness just because he was a black man.

-Summary for Ch. 26-31 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): During school, Scout learns about Adolf Hitler and the way that he treated the Jews. She thinks the way that the way Hitler treated the Jews is similar to the way the people in Maycomb treat the blacks. On the walk home from a pageant Jem and scout are attacked. Jem is hurt badly and was then carried home by a stranger. The Sheriff’s then turn up Bob Ewell’s body. Atticus thinks that it was Jem who stabbed him. The sheriff was going to cover for Jem and say that Bob fell on the knife, but Atticus told him not to. But then Atticus soon realized that it was someone else who killed him.

Theme Analysis …show more content…

These themes should be central messages the author is trying to convey about the thematic elements.

Evil: ”There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads ---they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." (Lee 202).

The quote is basically saying that life is unfair. And that blacks are treated