![]() ![]() He is afraid to tell the truth about the incident because he does not want to disrespect Mayella even if she is going against him in court. "Tom ran his hand nervously over his mouth" pg 200 ![]() The italics is to draw attention to this boundary.Įven when Tom is being accused by Mayella he uses polite language towards her.ģ. ![]() Tom oversteps boundaries by feeling sympathy towards Mayella and this was thought of as impertinent at the time due to the lower status that black people had at the time. "Y ou felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her? " pg 203 Scout has to take Dil out of the courtroom because he could not stop crying, when outside they see Mr Dolphus Raymond.ġ. Then Tom's employer, Mr Link Deas rises and announces that Tom has never been troublesome, so he is told by the judge to leave the court.The prosecution, Mr Gilmer examines Tom talking about his past and the event in particular. When he was on the chair Mayella grabbed his legs, hugged him round the waist and kissed him on the side of the face and Mr Ewell then came to the window, which is when he ran out. He states that Mayella called him to come inside her house in order to fix a door that was off its hinges but when he went inside the house he did not see anything wrong with the door, therefore he said that he would be leaving, which is when Mayella asked him to get a box that was on top of the chiffarobe. Then Tom is asked what happened on the evening of November the 21st ( the date that he is being questioned for about Mayella's rape). During the testimony Tom says that he had to pass Mayella Ewell's house every day due to his work and Mayella would ask him to do a number of chores for her. She's pretty convinced that when she got dumped out of the tire she heard someone laughing inside the Radley house.Tom takes the oath and proceeds to the witness-chair. Atticus gives this game the side-eye, but he doesn't explicitly forbid them from doing it since he doesn't know for sure what they're doing.The game starts out simple, but gets more and more complex as the summer goes on.Thanks to this adventure, Jem invents a new game: acting out the life and times of Boo Radley.They horse around a little, and Scout ends up flying down the sidewalk in a tire (don't ask), which ends up dumping her in ….She tells him to shut it, and Jem mocks both of them for being (or pretending to be) superstitious.They're already bored, so Dill kick things up a notch by saying he can smell death, and tells Scout that her end is nigh. Should they keep it? Chewing gum is one thing, but money is another entirely.On their way home, they find another piece of tinfoil in the same knothole, and behind it a jewelry box, decorated with more tinfoil, containing two Indian-head pennies.Jem's not too pleased with this and makes her spit it out… and then gargle.She takes it home, and, after some testing to try to make sure it's not poisoned, she chews it. ![]() A tree at the edge of the Radley yard has some tinfoil stuck to a knothole, and inside the hole Scout finds two pieces of chewing gum.One day she notices something, and works up the nerve to go back and look at it.Every day Scout runs by the Radley Place to get home after school. ![]()
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