We are going to check out 22-23 for Wednesday, 4/29. I hope to see you there!
I can't wait to hear what you have to say!
Chapter 22
-Jem is crying and angry - he thought that the case was clearly in Tom's favor.
Atticus is exhausted and when Jem asks him how the jury could have done it he responds, "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems like only children weep." (What does he mean by this statement?)
-A new day, a new bit of hope....The next morning:
New energy, the possibility for an appeal. -Tons of food from the African American community (Attiucs, grateful, but they shouldn't have Cal, these are hard times)
The kids: cake time with Miss Maudie. Jem loses faith in his community. Miss Maudie points out that many people helped, including Mr. Tate the sheriff, the black community, and especially Mr. Taylor the judge, who offered Atticus the case in the first place.
-She says that Atticus at least allowed the jury to stop and thing. She says, "we're making a step - it's just a baby step, but it's a step."
-Dill announces that he wants to be a clown. "there's ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off." I get it, but I am not a fan of clowns!!
- The children see Mr. Avery, Miss Stephanie, and Miss Rachel passionately discussing something.
-Apparently 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."
Bob EWell, enough said!
Chapter 23
-Atticus isn't worried. Ewell was publicly humiliated. He says it d better he takes out his frustrations on him rather than the Ewell children.
-Tom is being held on a prison farm...NO visitors.
-Atticus thinks there's a good chance he'll be spared execution by having his sentence commuted by the governor. Atticus comments that too many people are sent to death based upon purely circumstantial evidence.
-Jem thinks that juries should be done away with, because they can't make reasonable decisions. Atticus responds that men don't behave rationally in some situations, and will always take a white man's word over a black man's. (They discuss how juries are limited: No women, No interest,Hard times)
-Atticus points out that they didn't decided immediately, it took a few hours....because of one jurror, it was a Cunningham.......progress.
. Atticus thinks that all Cunninghams will stand solidly behind anyone who wins their respect, without fail - and the incident at the jailhouse won the Finch family great respect.
-Aunty chimes in, she'll never change
-To comfort Scout, Jem changes the subject to his chest hair and going out for football in the fall.
-He says that there are four different kinds of people in Maycomb county: "ordinary" people like themselves, people like the Cunninghams in the woods, people like the Ewells by the dump, and black people. Each class looks down upon and despises the class below it.
-Scout disagrees and thinks, "there's just one kind of folks. Folks." Jem says he used to think so as well, but he doesn't understand why they despise one another if that's the case
-. Jem seems very frustrated with society, and adds that maybe Boo stays inside because he wants to.
-Back to the Radley's. Did you forget about them?????????
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