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
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.
-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.
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.
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.
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.
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
In “To kill A Mockingbird”, a man named Boo Radley hides in his house for years upon years because of an incident involving him stabbing his father with scissors in the leg. This leads him to being locked away in his home. All the kids and adults in the neighborhood knows about this and spread the word to the people who don’t know. This leads to a massive rumor saying that Boo Radley is dangerous and nobody should go near their house. Towards the beginning of the book though a tree with a big hole is found in front of the radley’s house on the sidewalk.
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.
1. The narrator is Scout Finch. In the book, she is almost six years old, which was suggested in the quote, “When I was almost six...” It is proposed that Scout must be significantly older when she tells the story because she wrote, “When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them...” and, “We were far too old...”
The story begins during summer in Maycomb, Alabama. The children of Atticus Finch (a lawyer) Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill become interested in Boo Radley, a recluse. The children begin to act out plays and try to talk to Boo. On Dill’s last night in Maycomb, the children sneak into Boo’s yard, but Nathan Radley fires a gun when he hears an intruder. The children scatter, but Jem loses his pants.
First, the setting of TKAM in this passage as shown by Harper Lee describes that it’s a small town in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. In the setting of chapter 10 in TKAM shows a dog with a disease. When Jem and Scout saw the dog they rushed inside because they knew it was dangerous. They told Calpurnia and Calpurnia went to go check it out. She saw the dog and called Atticus for help.
In the book, Jem and Scout try to sneak into the trial against Atticus’s wishes, but end up arriving late. By the time they got there, the only available seats were on the balcony, which was reserved for colored citizens. This can show use of the Jim Crow laws because it conveys the idea that the Black citizens were separate from the rest of the town. In the novel, the children mention that while they were looking for a place to sit, they saw the Black citizens of Maycomb finding their seats, after waiting for the White citizens to find their own. The novel also sneaks in, when the children went up to the colored seats, four Black men automatically stood up and
In the passage Jem and Scout walk home during the dark hours,giving Bob Ewell an opportunity to stage an attack. As Bob Ewell attacks them Boo Radley rushes in to rescue Jem and Scout. After this Scout now understands what Atticus meant it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The killing of a mockingbird is much like killing the innocent. It is beyond a crime and worse than the most heinous atrocities.
Since Jem and Scout knew the black folks when they went to watch the trial they sat with Reverend Sykes and the other black people in the designated black area because there was no more room for them in the white area. “Happily, we sped ahead of Reverend Sykes to the courtroom floor. There, we went up a covered staircase and waited at the door Reverend Sykes came puffing behind us, and steered us gently through the black people in the balcony. Four Negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats” (Lee 219). Although Atticus and Tom Robinson lost the trial the black people in Maycomb still showed their appreciation to Atticus through bringing him food although they were poor and this story took place in the 1930s during the great depression.
