To Kill A Mockingbird Culminating Task - Newspaper

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THE MAYCOMB TIMES

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Monday, November 2, 1935

Vol XCIII, No. 311

DAUGHTER EWELL RAPED BY BLACK MAN

Staff Reporter Ayah Farhan

Maycomb, Alabama

Subtitle

FINCH CHILDREN ATTACKED, BOB EWELL DEAD

In Alabama, whites and blacks don’t mix. So what happens to the black man, Tom Robinson, when he is convicted of raping Bob Ewell’s daughter, Mayella?

From what many of the townspeople have said, it is known that Mayella had a chore or job for Tom to do as Tom walked home from work everyday. Tom said he did these chores for her because he "felt sorry for her".

One day she invited him in the shed. Tom claims she asked him to help her get something but she kissed him. However, Mayella claims that he attempted to rape her. Her father, Bob Ewell, was watching and saw what had happened. As soon as he did, he came in and Tom ran away. Bob Ewell decided to take this encounter to court, and Mayella’s father is on her side.

Atticus Finch, one of Maycomb’s best lawyers, decides to side with Tom Robinson in this case. During the trial, both Tom and Mayella’s lawyers provide solid evidence as to why either would be innocent. The jury makes his decision and it was said that Tom is guilty. Tom has stayed in the county prison waiting for another possible trial for a couple of weeks. He was shot dead by the officers there and their reasoning was that Tom was attempting to escape.

On Halloween, the town of Maycomb sponsored a party and play at the school. This plan constitutes an attempt to avoid the unsupervised mischief of the previous Halloween, when someone burglarized the house of two elderly sisters and hid all of their furniture in their basement. The play is an agricultural pageant in which every child portrays a food.

Atticus Finch, one of Maycomb’s best lawyers, let his children attend this party therefore his son took his daughter Scout there. Scout took part in the play and she wore a wire mesh shaped to look like ham. On the children’s way back, they were attacked by an unknown individual. The attacker seemed to have wanted to harm the children as Jem now has a broken arm and Scout’s costume has a big slash through it which was probably made by a kitchen knife. Scout says that Jem kept telling her to keep quiet because he heard footsteps. When they stopped, their pursuer began to run after them. Scout said that Jem told her to run, but in the dark she lost her balance and falls. Jem dragged Scout almost all the way to the road before their assailant pulled him back. Scout heard a crunching sound and Jem screamed; she ran toward him but was grabbed and squeezed. Then suddenly, her attacker was pulled away. Once the noise of struggling had ceased, Scout felt on the ground for Jem, finding only the figure of an unshaven man smelling of whiskey. She stumbled toward home, and saw, in the light of the streetlamp, a man carrying Jem towards her house.

Later on, the town’s mayor, Heck Tate, finds Bob Ewell dead in the same spot the children were attacked. The case is still under examination and more information will be released in the coming days.

BLACK CHURCH TAKES IN WHITE VISITORS

The obituary of a father, friend, and strong man.

In love and memory of Bob Ewell.

The Finch family are known in the city of Maycomb as the father, Atticus Finch, is a well known lawyer. In their household, they have a black woman named Calpurnia who is the chef and caretaker of the kids when Atticus is absent.

Calpurnia decides to take the children to her church, a colored church, that Sunday. Maycomb’s black church is an old building, called First Purchase because it was bought with the first earnings of freed slaves. One woman, Lula, criticizes Calpurnia for bringing white children to church, but the congregation is generally friendly, and Reverend Sykes welcomes them, saying that everyone knows their father. The church has no money for hymnals, and few of the parishioners can read, so they sing by echoing the words that Zeebo, Calpurnia’s eldest son and the town garbage collector, reads from their only hymnal.

Many people in the town are shocked at how Atticus’s very much white children could go to a colored church as this is very much out of the norm.

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Monday, November 2, 1935

Vol XCIII, No. 311

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

EDITORIAL

Killing a mockingbird is a sin, as said by Maycomb citizens

We have a winner to last week's contest! A special friend that has been living in the county of Maycomb for decades, Miss Maudie Atkinson. She talks about her thoughts and feelings of Maycomb. She writes:

Dear Editor,

Living in Maycomb for a great portion of my life has been great. It's a small town with not a lot of people, but I've been getting along just fine.

Earlier this year, my house had been burned down but Maycomb's folks and many people from nearby counties helped in. My precious azaleas! I did want a bigger house to have more space for gardening...

The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am I.

Sincerely,

Maudie Atkinson

The county of Maycomb is greatly populated by many Christians who do believe that killing a mockingbird is a sin. It is a sin because all that mockingbirds do is bring music and harmony and they do not harm anyone or anything.

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