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To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 16 And 17 Summary

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In chapters 16 and 17 the trial begins and everyone in Maycomb attends it. The only person who doesn’t is Miss Maudie who thinks that watching someone on trial is immoral. Atticus instructs his children not to go to the court. Everyone meets up to eat lunch and when they go back in Jem, Dill, and Scout wait for everyone to enter so they can disobey and get in without Atticus knowing. They wait too long to get in and end up having to sit where all of the black people have to sit. Once the trial starts the prosecutor, Mr. Gilmer, calls Heck Tate to the stand. Heck testifies and says that he found Mayella Ewell badly beaten and she said that Tom Robinson raped her. Heck admits that no doctor was summoned, as well as saying that Mayella’s bruises
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Mayella was very severely beaten lying on the floor in front of Heck Tate. They lifted Mayella up and splashed her face with water from a bucket. From there on Mayella had claimed that Tom Robinson was to blame for all of what happened. Heck Tate have had arrested Tom Robinson without any substantial evidence only two people who identified Tom were Bob and Mayella and they took Tom to court and now that is why we are here cause we believe Heck may have misinterpreted some

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He proceeded to investigate with his own personal biases, thus causing the situation to escalate. These poor investigating skills lead to Mr Tate also being at fault for the eventual death of Tom Robinson. Furthermore, from the trial, Heck Tate said that Mayella was badly beaten up and blames it on Tom. Heck Tate also explains that Mayella fainted at the scene. However, they failed to provide a doctor to examine her health and prove that she was actually raped by Tom Robinson.

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Mrs. Dubose lived alone. Jem and Scout were scared of her and hated her. Atticus would get furious about what Mrs. Dubose said to him. Jem turned twelve during this chapter. Jem bought a steam engine and Scout got a baton.

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The townspeople are grouping up against Atticus because of the case and they are trying to get the negro put in the county jail instead of in Maycomb. The negro got to stay in the Maycomb jail, but all the town’s men want to hurt the negro. Atticus had to go protect the negro in jail, and the men came, but Scout and Jem showed up so the men left. -Summary for Ch. 16-20 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): The court case has started and most everyone came to the court to see what will happen.

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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.

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Bob Ewell entered the office excited saying Heck needed to get out to the Ewells house quick, because some black person raped his daughter. Mr. Tate then drove to the Ewells estate and found Mayella Ewell lying in the middle of the floor in the front room beat up. Heck then helped Mayella up and asked her who had beat her up. Mayella told Sheriff Heck Tate that it was Tom Robinson who beat her up. Then Mr. Tate asked if Tom had taken advantage of her

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