Chapter 30
-The doctor returns and everyone moves to the back porch.
-Trying to be as friendly as possible and help make Boo feel more "at-home", Scout leads Boo to the porch and assists him into a rocking chair placed in a darker corner
- Who killed Bob? Atticus thinks that Jem must have done it since Scout named Jem as her protector in her story. (Atticus wants Jem to be treated with NO exceptions.
-However, the sheriff insists continually that Mr. Ewell fell onto his knife and killed himself
- After much arguing, finally the sheriff yells out that he's not trying to protect Jem (he is trying to protect Boo).
-The sheriff urges Atticus, this once, to accept the situation even if it's not perfect according to law:
-Mr. Ewell was responsible for Tom's death, and the sheriff urges Atticus to "let the dead bury the dead."
- He says that it would be a sin to drag shy Boo Radley out into the limelight, and declares officially that Mr. Ewell fell on his own knife. (I'ts a sin to kill a mockingbird)
- Attic- it would be like shooting a mockingbird.
- Atticus looks at Scout with a sense of wonder, and thanks Boo for the lives of his children. (How does he feel about Scout now)
Chapter 31
-Scout asks Boo if he'd like to say good night to Jem. Boo doesn't say a word; he just nods. (Why doesn't he speak?)
-Scout UNDERSTANDS BOO - Let's talk about this
-Scout sees that Boo would like to reach out and touch Jem, and shows him how to gently stroke Jem's hair.
-After Boo does this, she perceives that he wants to leave, and she leads him to the porch, where he asks her in a near-whisper, "Will you take me home?"
-He is her escort. Very Lady-like. She accepts, and allows him to escort her down the block, just like a lady should.
-The narrator, speaking as an older Scout, says she never saw him again.
-(Finally standing in Boo's shoes) Standing on Boo's porch, Scout look out over the neighborhood imagining how Boo must have seen it, and how, for all these years, he watched over "his" children.
-Back home, Scout sits with Atticus, who begins to read her one of the scary children's stories he has picked up, which ironically mirrors the story of WHO?
-Scout says she wasn't scared by the night's events, saying just as Jem had on their fateful walk home, that "nothing's really scary 'cept in books."
-She falls asleep while Atticus reads to her, and wakes up while he carries her to bed. -
She tells him she was listening all the time, and that the book is about a character who was chased and caught and then found to be innocent and "real nice."
- Atticus tells her, "most people are, when you finally see them."
-Atticus then spends the rest of the night by Jem's side.
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