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.
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.
Scout fell asleep and missed her entrance. She ran on stage at the end, and this caused many others to burst out laughing. The woman accused Scout of this thing. Scout was ashamed and went back home as the last one.
-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): Atticus has to be away a lot more than usual for the case, so Scout’s Aunt Alexandra came to stay with them. Their Aunt is really proper and wants them to act proper too, but they rebel.
Jem gets in trouble by Mrs. Dubose and is forced to read to her as a consequence; Scout understands her brother’s begrudging behaviour and tries to help by withstanding the punishment with him even though she’s afraid of the old lady, “You don’t have to go with Jem, you know” (Lee 143). Scout understands why Jem was angered by Mrs. Dubose after she insulted their father since she was upset as well and decided to join her brother through his retribution. During the trial, Scout comes to realize how lonely and sad Mayella must be since she has no friends and has not future because of her father’s ways, “...it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world.” (256).
In chapters 26-31 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout's school had a pageant coming up. Scout missed her turn in the pageant because she fell asleep backstage. After the pageant was over, Scout was too shy to take off her pork costume. While Jem and Scout were walking home, they heard someone walking behind them. Not long after, Scout’s costume was being crushed and they were running for their lives.
The fact that Scout is coming out of Jem’s room in the back of the house,, tells the reader that she was deep into the house where she was accepted. The setting of the school yard and the Finch home helps Scout learn about racial
To Kill a Mockingbird When you’re a kid, everything you encounter, makes you curious. Especially the stories you get told. It’s difficult to understand that someone is not always a story another person tells. Scout learns this lesson in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
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
After the trial and the death of Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell has a quarrel with Atticus which sparks the most terminal crime of the novel. Being exposed to the real world more and more throughout the novel, still can 't prepare Jem for the next adversity he faces. On the night of Scout’s pageant, Jem is the only family member to attend, showing his persistent affection for his sister. On the way home Jem and Scout realize they are being followed. Jem is under the impression that Cecil Jacobs is the person behind them, until the silhouette begins to scuttle in the dark towards them.
In the beginning of the book, Scout shows courage when she stands up for Walter Cunningham by telling Miss Caroline that he only takes what he can give back. Later in the story while Atticus is sitting in front of Tom Robinson’s jail cell, a mob forms up and they want to get to Tom. Not knowing what she’s doing, Scout breaks up the mob. At the very end of the story, Scout puts herself in Boo
When the men began to whisper to each other with the intention of not awakening the man they plan on hanging, Scout began to sense something was wrong, although she didn’t understand exactly what was occurring. She became terrified when one of the men grabbed Jem. It was her instinct to kick the man who then let go of Jem and fell back in pain. She showed major courage when she confronted Mr. Cunningham about his son in front of the mob. She overcame fear and was able to hold her ground and say what she believed.
The scene follows Jem and Scout through the forest on Halloween night. As they walk through the forest they are attacked without notice. In awe Scout falls over and is covered by her costume. Being the big brother Jem tried hard to fight off the attacker as long as he could so Scout could run somewhere safe.
That boy Jean Finch had destroyed my flowers for the horrible things I said about his father and maybe I deserved it but those flowers were so young so full of light so natural I just wanted to be like them. They were my motivation to stop taking the morphine. He had dragged himself all the way down to my house to apologize. I want anywhere near nice to him i wouldn’t let him see my suffering.
Scout is to play a ham in a pageant about Maycomb’s agricultural tributes, during the carnival held at the high school. She messes up during the play, and hides in shame in her costume on the walk home with Jem. As they walk, Jem hears suspicious noises, but his brotherly instinct is to keep Scout calm and unaware of danger. Scout sees through his transparent attempts instantly. “[He] was talking in an unhurried, flat toneless voice.
