Mr. Dolphus Raymond let every dill drink something in the
paper sack, Scout thinks that it is alcohol and she told him not to drink so
much but drink only little, Dill then told it is not alcohol but Mr. Dolphus
told every kid to pretend to get drunk so they can trick the white people. Then
Dill and Scout return to the place of the courtroom Atticus is finishing. Evidence shows that Bob Ewell,
not Tom Robinson, beat Mayella when Atticus finish, Calpurnia comes into the
courtroom. Handing him note telling that the kids have not been home since
noon. Mr. Underwood said the saw the kids somewhere. Calpurinia walked Jem home
and find jury together. That night, Jem cries, railing against the injustice of
the verdict. The next day, Maycomb’s black population increased, and outside Miss
Stephanie Crawford is gossiping with Mr. Avery and Miss Maudie, and she tries to
question Jem and Scout about the way. As the children leave Miss Maudie’s
house, Miss Stephanie runs over to tell them that Bob Ewell accosted their
father that morning, spat on him, and swore revenge. It is dark
on the way to the school, and Cecil Jacobs jumps out and frightens Jem and
Scout. Scout and Cecil walked around the pageant nears its start and all of the
children go backstage. Scout, however, has fallen asleep and and miss her
entrance... She runs onstage at the end, prompting Judge Taylor and many others
to burst out laughing.
The woman in charge of the pageant accuses Scout of
ruining it. Scout is so ashamed that she and Jem wait backstage until the crowd
is gone before they make their way home.On the walk back home, Jem hears noises
behind him and Scout. They think it must be Cecil Jacobs trying to frighten
them again, but when they call out to him, they hear no reply. They have almost
reached the road when their pursuer begins running after them. Jem screams for
Scout to run but Scout hears a crunching sound and Jem screams; she runs toward
him and is grabbed and squeezed. Suddenly, her attacker is pulled away. Once
the noise of struggling has lessen Scout feels on the ground for Jem, she turn
to Jem and walk to her house.Scout reaches home, and Aunt Alexandra goes to
call Dr. Reynolds. Atticus calls Heck Tate, telling him that someone has
attacked his children.
Alexandra removes Scout’s costume, and tells her that
Jem is only unconscious, not dead. Dr. Reynolds then arrives and goes into
Jem’s room. When he emerges, he informs Scout that Jem has a broken arm and a
bump on his head, but that he will be all right. Scout goes in to see Jem. The
man who carried him home is in the room, but she does not recognize him. Heck
Tate appears and tells Atticus that Bob Ewell is lying under a tree, dead, with
a knife stuck under his ribs.As Scout tells everyone what she heard and saw,
Heck Tate shows her costume with a mark on it where a knife slashed and was
stopped by the wire. When Scout gets to the point in the story where Jem was
picked up and carried home, she turns to the man in the corner and really looks
at him for the first time. He is pale, with torn clothes and a thin, pinched
face and colorless eyes.
She realizes that it is Boo Radley.Scout takes
Boo—“Mr. Arthur”—down to the porch, and they sit in shadow listening to Atticus
and Heck Tate argues. Heck insists on calling the death an accident, but
Atticus, thinking that Jem killed Bob Ewell, doesn’t want his son protected
from the law. Heck corrects him—Ewell fell on his knife; Jem didn’t kill him.
Although he knows that Boo is the one who stabbed Ewell, Heck wants to hush up
the whole affair, saying that Boo doesn’t need the attention of the
neighborhood brought to his door. Tom Robinson died for no reason, he says, and
now the man responsible is dead: “Let the dead bury the dead.” Scout takes Boo
upstairs to say goodnight to Jem and then walks him home. He goes inside his
house, and she never sees him again. But, for just a moment, she imagines the
world from his perspective. She returns home and finds Atticus sitting in Jem’s
room. He reads one of Jem’s books to her until she falls asleep.
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