Chapter 30

Literary Luminary:
Page 273 paragraph 2. I like this passage because the way how Scout can tell that her father and the Sheriff are both stubborn with one other.
Page 275 quote, "I'm not a very good man, sir,but I am the sheriff of Maycomb County." I chose this because I like the way how Mr. Tate can live up to his name, how he does reconize his past faults, and how he still knows when does do something right.
Page 276 quote, "Let the dead bury the dead this time." This is a importan sentence to me. Heck is insistant that Jem did not kill Bob Ewell and how he is trying to convince Atticus of it. By saying that you would think about what di you mean this time? I think it's because How Atticus is alway s trying to put a right to something and now he should know that he simply can't always do so.

Summary:
Scout and Boo went and sat on the porch to talk with him. Inside Atticus and Heck were talking about what could have happened to Bob Ewell. Heck then said he must have fallen on his own knife, but Atticus said that Jem had killed him. Heck couldn’t believe that a boy that has broken arms could have done it to a grown arm. After that Heck started showing the way he thinks it happened. Heck knows that Boo is the one who stabbed Bob Ewell, but he doesn’t want to tell because he knows all the women in Maycomb will thank Boo and give him cake. Finally Atticus agrees to the story, and thanks Boo for saving his children.

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As Mr. Tate and Atticus further discuss the incident Mr. Tate says he is sure that Bob Ewell killed himself by mistake. Atticus in disbeleif thinks that Jem had killed him for some reason. Atticus goes on about not being able to look his kids in the eyes if he told a lie to the rest of Maycomb to cover up the truth. Mr. Tate explains even more by tellling Atticus how it was impossible for an injured Jem to achieve such a feat. I think Mr. Tate is right and other than that Bob Ewell had it coming. He had taken an innocent life dishonestly and now it was his turn. To kill a Mockingbird is a sin and he paid for it with his life.

Chapter 29

Literary Luminary:
Page 269 quote,"He had guts enough....to your face in daylight?" Mr. Tate was a witness for Mr. Ewell and it was kind of expectant that later on he would talk about him like this.
Page 270 paragraph 2. I picked this out because i thought the description of this man was very detailed and nicely written.
Page 270 quote "Hey, Boo." This was cool to read because now you see the purpose that Boo had in this book. The kids always going up to the house, always thinking back to it. The way Boo always helped out the kids. It just really makes sense now.

Summary:
Heck asks Scout what had really happened. When he was looking at her costume, he saw a knife cut through the chicken wire. Then he told her the costume saved her life because if it wasn’t for it, she could have got hurt. Then Scout started saying the story, and she said that when Mr. Ewell was squeezing her really tight, someone had helped her. After that she said she heard someone and thought it was Atticus. But when she asked who it was, she looked on the man in the corner. When Scout looked at him she noticed the paleness on his hands and face. Then finally she noticed it was Boo Radley.

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It has been confirmed that Bob Ewell was the person who tried to kill Jem and Scout. It was his goal to pay Atticus back even if it would take the rest of his life. And it ended up being the last thing that he ever did and he failed. Scout's secret guardian had finaly emerged and had saved them both from Bob Ewell. He was Boo Radley. I hadn't been the first time that Boo helped Scout and Jem and now he had ultimately saved their lives in what seems like the climax of the story. From Boo's actions he seems like Scout’s Guardian Angel who arrives at the right moment.

Chapter 28

Questions:

1. I think this is the scariest chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird, what’s your opinion about this chapter? Why?

2. Discuss what maybe happened?

3. What would you do if you were Jem and Scout? Discuss your answers.

4. Who do you think killed Bob, why?

Summary:
On the way to school it is dark so Jem and Scout walk there. When they are on the way, Cecil Jacobs scares them. Then Scout sleeps while the play is on and the women in charge gets mad and Scout feels ashamed. After they go home they hear noises and think it was Cecil again but then they are been chased. So then Jem gets hurt and Scout becomes really scared. Scout goes home and Atticus calls Heck Tate and tells him someone has attacked his children and Aunt Alexandra calls Dr. Reynold. Aunt Alexandra tells Scout that Jem is just unconscious not dead. Dr. Reynold arrives and goes in Jem’s room and when he goes out of the room he tells Scout that has a broken arm and a bump on his head. Heck Tate then arrives and tells Atticus that Bob Ewell is lying under a tree stabbed under his ribs and dead

Literary Luminary: Page 254 paragraph 3. This clearly shows that Jem and Scout have grown up over the time.
Page 259 paragraph 1.This tells me that Jem is kind of worriedand he cares about his little sister and wants her to be safe.
Page 260 paragraph 1. I picked this because i really like how this was written and it set a great setting.
Page 266 quote, "Bob Ewell's lyin' on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He's dead, Mr. Finch." This was a schock to me but not trluy surpising. It makes me think about who could of done it and the first person that came to my mind was Arthur Radley(Boo). Why? If you look back on how it was most likely that he helped out the kids near that same tree. Like at the fire and when they foung all this cool stuff in the tree. It gives Boo a good motive.

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Jem and Scout are attacked on their way home from the show. Jem is badly hurt, with a broken arm and unconscious, and Scout managed to get away unscathed because Jem told her to run. A man heard the noises and came to the rescue and carried Jem home. Atticus immediately calls the sherrif, Mr. Tate, over. At the end we find out That bob Ewell was lying dead under a tree.
From what I've read it seems that Bob Ewell attempted to harm or kill Atticus's kids because in the previous chapter's Jem said he heard a rumour that Bob Ewell said he had aquired one of his two targets. One of them was Tom Robinson and he is dead. But fortunately, and ironicaly, both Jem and Scout got away with their lives but he was the only one to die.

Chapter 27

Questions:
1. Does Bob Ewell care about the fact that Mr. Link protects a black women? Why or why not?

2. Judge Taylor saw a shadow, I think it is Bob Ewell, but what is your opinion? Why do you think that?

3. Bob Ewell is losing his job, he is following Helen, and he’s maybe observing Judge Taylor, why do you think he is doing all this?

4. How do you think Cecil represents Scout? Explain your answer.

Summary:
Bob Ewell gets a job at the WPA and then looses it in a few days. After that Helen, Tom Robinson’s wife gets a job from the employer of her husband. While going to her job, she has to pass by the Ewell’s house. After that when she passes Bob Ewell start chuckling at her, so then she tells her boss and her boss goes to his hose and tells him if he does it again he will be put in jail. Then after that when she was walking Bob followed her and her boss started like telling Bob how he can put him in jail. Halloween comes and the town makes a party and play at the school. Scout dresses as a ham and Jem takes her because Atticus and Aunt Alexandra are tired.

Literary Luminary:
Page 248 last paragraph to page 249. I chose this because it was nice of Link Deas to help out the Robinson family and take care of the Ewells.
Page 250 quote,"I think I understand....to your dump." This was very informative, even Mr. Ewell knows that no one really believes him and that indeed he was very lucky.
Page 252 paragraph 5. I found this sort of funny because of the way the kids are named as animals.
Page 253 quote, "Oh nothing, nothing," she said. "somebody just walked over my grave." I like this expression alot because it shows Alexandra being calm and growing old. I read in a book once that if you see a man in a bolder hat looking up at you from a window it means that someone walked over your grave and this sentence reminded me of it.

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In this chapter we find out that Mr Ewell was facing some problems of his own. He got a job and lost it in three days because of laziness. Next he got a fierce warning from Mr. Link Deas for harrasing Helen, Tom Robinson's wife, and making her feel miserable. Mr. Lionk Deas vowed he would get him jailed if it happened again. I beleive that all this mishap was caused by his dishonest and dishonarable act on the late Tom Robinson. Bob Ewell had expected to have a better life from getting Tom Robinson killed but it backed fired and his life has stayed just a bad or worse.

Chapter 26

Questions:

1. Discuss how does Scout sees people.

2. Why do you think Scout wants to see Boo Radley so badly?

3. Scout seems to talk easily about the courthouse, while Jem is mad when we talk about it, why?

4. Why are the Radleys so aggressive to people?

Literary Luminary:
Page 243 pararaph 3. I admire how Scout thinks about how people are and how she doesn't get them so she stays away from them because she doesn't want to get them. I like how she chooses not to be part of that.
Page 245 quote, "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." This to me is not true. The definition is true, America is basically a democracy but their racism back then didn't make that sentence completly true.
Page 245 paragraph 1. This was screaming hypocrite. The way how Miss Gates knew about prejudice but doesn't seem to realize that it's not only Germany and that Germany and America are not that different at all.
Page 247 last paragraph. How Atticus says that Jem will truly get over in time just made me think if this was another stage he was going through.

Summary:
Jem and Scout go back to school, Jem is in the 7^th grade and Scout is in the 3^rd. Scout stills wants to see Boo Radley before she dies, but Atticus tells her don’t because she can get killed. Miss Gates talks about Hitler and his persecution to Jews. Then she goes to Jem and talks to him about Miss Gates, and mentions the courthouse. Jem tells her to never mention it again and he becomes mad at her. So then Scout becomes upset and then goes to Atticus and sits with him.
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Cecil Jacobs reads out to his classmates a current event About Hitler taking advantage of the Jews and persecuting them. Miss Gates tells the class that Germany has a dictatorship while America has a Democracy and she explains the difference between the two. She adds how Jews contribute to every society that they live in and how they are very religious and Hitler doesn't like them for that. But even in Maycomb the same thing happens even though there is supposed to be a democracy blacks are treated very differently from the whites. And it breaks down to the same two issues: prejudice and racism.

Chapter 25

Questions:

1. Why do you think when we see insects, we want to squash them?

2. How Jem is becoming a girl by telling Scout why she is not suppose to squash the roly-poly?

3. Why does Jem want to go with Atticus?

4. Do you think Helen had feelings?

Literary Luminary:
Page 238 paragraph 4. This paragraph was interesting to read because the way how Scout is so impatient with jem growing up amuses me.
Page 239 paragraph 4. I chose this passage because it shows how badly the Negroes lived they were put way in the back futrther than thwe Ewells and it really just set the line.
Page 240 quote, "Scout,"said Dill, "she just fell down in the dirt. Just fell in the dirt, like a giant with a big foot just came along and stepped on her. Just ump-" Dill's fat foot hit the ground. "Like you'd step on a ant." I chose this because it made me realize how vunerable some people were in this time.


Summary:
Scout observes that it is Jem who is acting more and more of a girl not her. She thinks that because she found a roly-poly and was about to squash it, but then Jem said no don’t because the roly-poly didn’t harm her. Jem asks Atticus if he can go to Helen Robinson’s house with him to tell her about the news of Tom Robinson’s death. He goes with him and before they tell her she falls and Calpurnia and Atticus out help her. Maycomb was interested by the news of tom Robinson’s death for about 2 days. Dill goes because school is going to start.

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In this chapter Calpurnia and Atticus visit Tom Robinson's house to see Helen. Later on Mr Underwood writes in the papers how he feels about the injustice on Tom Robinson and how it was sinful to kill a cripple.
Scout then explains that Tom Robinson had no chance from the moment Mayella screamed. Tom's life was no longer in his control, his fate was sealed and when he tried escaping from prison he was trying to run away from his fate which was death.

Chapter 24

Questions:
1. Do you think Calpurnia is Scout's feminine model? Who is your model?
2. Why do you think she doesn't want to be a "lady"?
3. Discuss if she really needs to meet these ladies and behave like one at the age of eight?
4. How did you react when you learn what happened in jail?
5. Who do you think did it? Did you expect Tom's life was to end after this case?

Summary:

Aunt Alexandra invites over her women’s group to tea. Scout was wearing a dress and was serving tea with Calpurnia, and then Aunt Alexandra tells Scout to with the ladies. Scout while sitting down listens to the ladies discussing stuff. Then Atticus says some bad news about Tom Robinson getting shot many times in jail for trying to escape. He takes Calpurnia with him after that to give Tom Robinson’s family the bad news.

Literary Luminary:

Page 231 and 232 paragraph 1. I chose this because it showed that Mrs. Merriweather had no expirience with children since she had none in the first place.

Page 233 paragraph 2. This was nicely written and even though it was a dark mood the author described it in a way that got me interested.

Page 233 paragraph 3. This was nice to read for me becasue I saw Aunt Alexandra change a little. She and Miss Maudie didn't get along and now Maudie is backing her up.

Page 237 last sentence. I like it when Scout tries too level up to her aunt and how she is almost trying to prove something to her

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A very unfortunate thing happens in this chapter. Tom Robinson is shot when atempting an escape from the prison grounds. Tom Robinson symbolised a mockingbird because he was truly innocent but he died for nothing. I find Tom Robinson indeed very parallel to a Mocking bird. If something that is innocent that doesn't harm anything(like the way a mockingbird sings and how Tom helped Mayella out of pure good will) is locked away in a cage for no good reason it should be considered sinful.

Chapter 23

Question:
1. Have your parents ever wanted that you shouldn't be friends with someone?
2. Discuss why does the jury said that Tom was guilty even if he wasn't?
3. Do you think Scout cares about Jem growing up and acting more mature?
4. Together try to agree if there are only four different groups?

Summary:
Atticus was talking to the kids about the courthouse. He said that he never thought that he would win the case. It was hard for a black man to win back then. Then Atticus said that a relative of Walter Cunningham sat on Tom Robinson’s jury. Scout was a little surprised because of what Walter did at the jail house the night before.

Literary Luminary:
Page 220 quote, " Then go up to Montgomery and change the law." I chose this because it showed me that the kids didn't truly undestand rules and that they were still innocent.
Page 220 paragraph 1 sentence, 'He said the other thingabout them was, once you earned your respect they were for you tooth and nail.'
Page 225 quote," I'll tell you why,"she said. "Because...he...is...trash...." I chose this becasue i tell me that Aunt Alexandra is very prejudiced and that she has a very tolerance level.
Page 227 quote, "That's what thought, too.......it's because he wants to stay inside." This told me that Jem really did do some growing up. Before he would try to get Boo radley to camr out but he undrstands why he stays in.

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At the end of the chapter Scout and Jem try to categorize the different people in Maycomb. Jem puts them in 4 groups; ordinary people, the Cunninghams, the Ewells and the negroes. But Scout points out that all folks really are the same but they don't get along and Jem used to wonder why. Then Jem remembers Boo Radley and says he doesn't go outside because he'd rather stay inside. Like this man in this cave who seeks refuge from the outside "dangers".