In Ch. 23 Jem talks with Atticus about doing away with juries. Jem thinks it's unfair that Tom was sentenced by a racist jury. This work to enlighten Jem on several levels. Jem is naive. Atticus ...
Cite. Jem is not stupid. He respects his father with a very healthy fear. He fears that yelling at Atticus would get him into trouble. Besides, what Jem says could be rather hurtful to Atticus. He ...
 ¡ Atticus Finch, the widowed father of Jeremy (Jem) and Jean Louise (Scout) , is a lawyer. He agrees to defend Tom Robinson , a black man accused of raping a white woman. The woman victim, Mayella ...
It was different for us. Jem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole. and stick it through the shutters. If anyone came along, Dill would. ring the bell. Dill raised his ...
Harper Lee Quotes âI thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain't so sure now!â To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 5. Jem shouts this when he knows Atticus can't hear him.
Summary: Chapter 23 Bob Ewell's threats are worrisome to everyone except Atticus. Atticus tells Jem and Scout that because he made Ewell look like a fool, Ewell needed to get revenge. Now that Ewell has gotten that vengefulness out of his system, Atticus expects no more trouble.
Summary: Chapter 11 Jem takes a baton from Scout and destroys all of Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes. As punishment, Jem must go to her house every day for a month and read to her.
Chapter 23 âI wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco,â was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him.
What happens to Atticus at the end of chapter 22? Mr. Ewell saw Atticus by the post office, spat in his face, and told him that, "he'd get him if it took the rest of his life."
Scout studies Jem, who's getting taller and leaner. He shows her hair growing on his chest, which Scout can't see but compliments anyway. He tells Scout to not let Aunt Alexandra get on her nerves and asks if Scout would start sewing.
0:082:47To Kill a Mockingbird | Chapter 12 Summary & Analysis | Harper LeeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipIn Atticus's absence Calpurnia takes the finch children to her african-american. Church a womanMoreIn Atticus's absence Calpurnia takes the finch children to her african-american. Church a woman named Lula confronts Calpurnia and asks her why she's bringing white people to their church.
Dr. Erland shows Cinder a scan of her body and explains that the letumosis virus, which he injected into her veins less than an hour ago, is gone. It takes her a minute to believe that she does not have the plague, and that she is not contagious. Her first reaction is relief, closely followed by suspicion.
0:081:48To Kill a Mockingbird | Chapter 11 Summary & Analysis | Harper LeeYouTubeStart of suggested clipEnd of suggested clipAfter Jem finishes his month-long sentence mrs. DuBose dies Atticus reveals that she'd been addictedMoreAfter Jem finishes his month-long sentence mrs. DuBose dies Atticus reveals that she'd been addicted to morphine. But had made a commitment to beat her addiction.
Summary: Chapter 23 The District Commissioner returns from his tour and requests that the leaders of Umuofia meet with him. They go, taking only their machetes because guns would be âunseemly.â The commissioner talks to them in condescending terms and says that they should discuss the church's burning âas friends.â
Summary: Chapter 23: The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter Turning toward the scaffold, he calls to Hester and Pearl to join him. Deaf to Chillingworth's attempt to stop him, Dimmesdale mounts the scaffold with Hester and Pearl. He declares that God has led him there.
Summary: Chapter 23 Holden leaves Phoebe's room for a moment to call Mr. Antolini, an English teacher he had at Elkton Hills. Mr. Antolini is shocked that Holden has been kicked out of another school and invites Holden to stay the night at his house.
At the bottom of the hill, Jonas sees rooms full of colored lights. He is certain that there are people inside those rooms who keep their memories and understand what love is, and who are waiting for him and Gabriel. From the houses, he hears what he knows must be music, and realizes that the people are singing.
In Chapter 23 of The Kite Runner, Amir wakes up in a hospital after being attacked by Assef. Amir drifts in and out of consciousness until he slowly starts to recognize the people around him. A doctor tells him that he has a ruptured spleen, punctured lung, broken ribs and smashed-in face.
I asked Atticus if Tom's wife and children were allowed to visit him, but Atticus said no. âIf he loses his appeal,â I asked one evening, âwhat'll happen to him?â âHe'll go to the chair,â said Atticus, âunless the Governor commutes his sentence. Not time to worry yet, Scout.
the Enfield Prison FarmTom is now at the Enfield Prison Farm seventy miles away, where his family can't visit him.
In chapter 9, Scout faces conflict over Atticus's decision to represent Tom Robinson. Her initial responses are to fight in defense of Atticus, and...
In learning about the Tom Robinson case, Scout learns a lot about her father and her town. She learns that Atticus is defending Tom because it is t...
Scout eavesdrops on Atticus and Uncle Jack having a conversation about the case. Atticus admits to Jack that he can't win the case, but that he hop...
This is probably not true, but Jem says it to demonstrate his frustration with Atticus' involvement in the kids' efforts to discover Boo Radley.
So, he stops short of saying this to his father's face because he runs the risk of actually hurting his father's feelings, which Jem does not really want to do. He is just angry at the moment and this sentiment comes out as a result.
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Harper Lee 's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird follows the Finch family in the fictional town of Maycomb, AL. Atticus Finch, the widowed father of Jeremy (Jem) and Jean Louise (Scout) , is a lawyer. He agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. The woman victim, Mayella, is a member of the Ewell family.
Two major confrontations drive this chapter, both centering on Scout's defense of Atticus. The first confrontation occurs between Scout and her classmate Cecil Jacobs. The second confrontation occurs between Scout and her cousin Francis.
"Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess. You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down."
Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to. take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had been. done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record. He waited a respectful distance from the front steps, watched Atticus leave the house and walk toward town.
do what we tell you," Dill warned.
Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted. She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.
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Dill raised his right hand . In it was my mother's silver dinner-bell.
Jem said placidly, "We are going to give a note to Boo Radley."
Maudie. "Wouldn't you stay in the house if you didn't want to come
In this moment Jem recognizes a lesson that Atticus hoped to teach him. Jem realizes that there is value and meaning in fighting for something good even if losing the fight is inevitable.
Jem shouts this line after he is sure that Atticus wonât be able to hear him. He is mad that Atticus got him to admit guilt using a lawyerâs trickery. While Jemâs grudging acceptance that Atticus got the best of him is funny, the line also foreshadows Jemâs development over the course of the novel. Jem will ultimately realize ...
He is trying to get Jem to consider the situation from Bobâs point of view, and understand the humiliation and rage Bob must feel as a result of the trial. While Atticus is empathetic to Bobâs experience, he underestimates the depth of Bobâs rage, which will affect his children more than it affects Atticus directly.
Here, Atticus is talking to Jem about how long the jury deliberated before returning with a verdict. Atticus sees a glimmer of hope in the fact that the jury did not immediately find Tom guilty, as they usually would in such a case.
Here, Atticus articulates the central lesson he wants to convey to Scout, which is that empathy is the key to understanding others. Atticus presents lessons in empathy several times in relation to Scoutâs schoolmates, her teacher, the mob outside the courthouse, and the jury. By the end of the novel, Scout has begun using empathy ...
Atticus recognizes that the time it took for the jury to reach a decision is a small victory, perhaps too small to even be considered a victory, but that it is still a kind of progress, and that it should be valued. Previous section Scout Next section Jem.
Atticus knows that by agreeing to defend Tom Robinson he has put himself and his family in line for some unpleasant experiences. Atticus is particularly interested in protecting his children from the ugliness around the trial, and here, he tries to convince Scout to ignore whatever abuse comes her way. Scout tries mightily to obey her fatherâs advice throughout the novel. Scoutâs struggle to behave the way she knows her father wants her to versus her urge to protect her family form one of the conflicts of the novel.
Here, Atticus explains mob mentality, arguing that well-intentioned individuals can lose their basic humanity when they act together. Examples of this behavior include the group that appears outside Tom Robinsonâs cell at night, and the jury that finds him guilty. Atticus also suggests that the presence of reasonable people can serve as a cure to unreasonable behavior. This principle seems to guide Atticusâs commitment to doing right even when there is no hope of success.
Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tomâs jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didnât go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. Thereâs something in our world that makes men lose their headsâthey couldnât be fair if they tried.
Atticus said, âDonât pay any attention to her, Jack. Sheâs trying you out. Cal says sheâs been cussing fluently for a week, now.â
Aunt Alexandra was Atticusâs sister, but when Jem told me about changelings and siblings, I decided that she had been swapped at birth, that my grandparents had perhaps received a Crawford instead of a Finch. Had I ever harboured the mystical motions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest; throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down. Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him. I felt extremely noble for having remembered, and remained noble for three weeks. Then Christmas came and disaster struck.
When Uncle Jack jumped down from the train Christmas Eve day, we had to wait for the porter to hand him two long packages. Jem and I always thought it funny when Uncle Jack pecked Atticus on the cheek; they were the only two men we ever saw kiss each other. Uncle Jack shook hands with Jem and swung me high, but not high enough; Uncle Jack was a head shorter than Atticus; the baby of the family, he was younger than Aunt Alexandra. He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face; we were never wary of his sharp nose and chin.
When supper was over, Uncle Jack went to the living-room and sat down. He slapped his thighs for me to come sit on his lap. I liked to smell him; he was like a bottle of alcohol and something pleasantly sweet. He pushed back my bangs, and looked at me. âYouâre more like Atticus than your mother,â he said. âYouâre also growing out of your pants a little.â
I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
There were six bedrooms upstairs, four for the eight female children, one for Welcome Finch, the sole son, and one for visiting relatives. Simple enough; but the daughtersâ rooms could be reached only by one staircase, We lcomeâs room and the guest- room only by another. The Daughtersâ Staircase was in the ground-floor bedroom of their parents, so Simon always knew the hours of his daughtersâ nocturnal comings and goings.