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Beginning

A Bit More of the Story

Half-way Through

Almost Finished

End

To Kill A Mockingbird Timeline

Cal's Church

Ol' One Shot

The Trial

Bob Ewell Attacks

Dill Comes to Maycomb for the First Time

That night, Scout and Jem are returning home from the pageant that Scout was in when suddenly they are attacked by an unknown person. Scout can't see much due to her ham costume, but she notices that another person has came to help them. When Scout gets to the house, the Sheriff informs Atticus that it was was Bob Ewell that attacked the children and that he is also dead. This is important to the story because this is what caused Boo Radley to finally appear.

It is a Sunday, and Jem and Scout have been left in the care of Calpurnia while Atticus is away on business. Since today was Sunday, Cal decided that she would take Jem and Scout to her church. During the service, Scout and Jem get to experience first hand how services are run by Reverend Sykes. While the service is in progress, Jem and Scout learn that only four people at the church know how to read. This is important because it shows that even though the colored folks don't have as much as some people do, they still have the religion as whites folks. In a way this makes them alike.

The day of Tom Robinson's trial has come. During the trial, Atticus does a stupendous job of disproving Bob Ewell's testimony, by making Bob seem foolish and by disproving his testimony in a way that made it look like Bob could of committed the crime. Atticus also did a thorough job of making Mayella Ewell's testimony look like as if she was lying about everything. When it was Tom's turn to take the stand, just from what he said during examination and during the cross-examination, his testimony made Mayella and Bob look like the true people they are. The trail brought out the true nature of the people involved. That is why it is important to the story.

There isn't much to say about what is happening except for the fact that Dill just came to Maycomb for the summer. Most importantly, Dill is another kid that is around the same age as Scout and Jem. This event is important because this sparks the kids curiosity about Boo Radley and how they wandered what he looked like.

During this part of the story, it is February and Jem notices that Tim Johnson (who happens to be a dog) is sort of moseying along, but in a weird way. It turns out that that he had rabies and they called Atticus to come handle the situation. When he gets there, the Sheriff Mr. Tate hands him a rifle. Atticus aims and shoots. The dog flops to one side. Dead in one shot. This is important to the story because this event brings light to Scout and Jem's eyes. They may not know Atticus as well as they thought they did. This also brings about the saying that you can't judge a book by it's cover.

"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" (Lee 266)

Calpurnia

Dill Harris

Pictures from the trial

Tim Johnson

Atticus

"Mr. Finch, there's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. Ewell 'as one of 'em" (Lee 269)

First Purchase Church

Reverend Sykes

The Verdict

Arthur "Boo" Radley

The Lynch Mob

Mrs.Dubose

The Secret Hiding Spot

During this part of the story, as Jem and Scout are walking home from school one day, Scout races ahead of Jem. As she passes by the Radley place, she notices that there is something in the knot-hole of the tree that was over the fence line. It was some gum. As time passes, the two children continues to find different miscellaneous items. This is important to the story because this continues to fuel the kids imagination about Arthur "Boo" Radley.

When get to this part of the story, Mrs. Dubose is sitting on her porch as usual. Then, Jem and Scout pass by on their way to V.J. Elmore's (a store). On the return trip home, as they pass by Mrs Dubose was not on her porch, Jem, who was still furious from their earlier encounter, loses his control a starts ripping up Mrs. Dubose's camellias. When Atticus finds out, Jem is forced to read to Mrs. Dubose everyday for a month. After Jem's time is done, a month later we learn that Mrs. Dubose has died. Atticus explains to the kids that she was a morphine addict. This is important to the story because Mrs. Dubose was a true symbol of what courage and strength really is.

It is another Sunday, the day before Tom Robinson's trial. It is also late at night. Jem sees Atticus leaving the house in his car, which something that Atticus normally doesn't do. When Aunt Alexandra's light goes off Scout and Jem sneak out of the house, grab Dill and heads off in the direction that Atticus went in. When they finally get to where Atticus was, thet notice a group of men trying to get at Tom Robinson so that they can kill him themselves. Scout eventullay gets restless and runs over to Atticus which also exposes Jem and Dill as well. As Scout glances at the lynch mob, she notices Walter's father Mr. Cunningham. Scout engages in a conversation with him. This event is important because without Scout's interference, the lynch mob would of probably killed Tom and maybe Atticus as well. She didn't know it at the time but it was Scout's innocence that convinced Mr. Cunningham to disperse the lynch mob.

Before the jury was dismissed to go and decide a verdict, Atticus tries one more time to save Tom during his closing statement. Jem is confident in Atticus' abilities as a lawyer and is positive that he has it in the bag. Unfortunately, when the jury decides that ultimately that Tom is guilty, Jem is crushed. This is very crucial to the story because this is when Jem realizes that the people of Maycomb are not as good as he assumed they were.

We are introduced to Boo Radley. We find out that it was him who saved Jem and Scout. He wants to see Jem and afterward he asks Scout to take him back home. He goes inside and Scout never sees him again. His appearance is key to the story because after Scout takes Boo home, she notices that she has never seen her street from this angle. This is Scout seeing things from Boo's perspective. She had finally learned to walk in someone else's shoes.

The Hiding Spot

" I looked around. They were standing. All around us and in the balcony on the opposite wall, the Negroes were getting to their feet. Reverend Sykes's voice was as distant as Judge Taylor's:

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. your father's passin'." (Lee 211)

" I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense." (Lee 203)

Mayella and Bob Ewell

Mrs.Dubose

Mr. Cunningham

Arthur "Boo" Radley

"She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her-I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew." (Lee 112)

"And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's. I need not remind you of their appearance and conduct on the stand-you saw them for yourselves. The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confident that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber." (Lee 204)

"I looked around and up at Mr. Cunningham, whose face was equally impassive. Then he did a peculiar thing. He squatted down and took me by both shoulders.

"I'll tell him you said hey, little lady," he said.

Then he straightened up and waved a big paw. "Let's clear out," he called. "Let's get moving boys." (Lee 154)

"An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...."

His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking around me.

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. he would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem woke up in the morning." (Lee 281)

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