TKAM Chapters 20-22

In these chapters the trial comes to an end. Atticus discovers that Jem, Scout and Dill have been sitting in the colored balcony and have been there since 1 in the afternoon. He sends them home to go eat and tells them they can come back afterwards although he knows the court will have already come up with their verdict by then. Tom Robinson is found guilty and as Atticus leaves the entire colored balcony stands and shows him respect for defending a colored man. The injustice of the verdict upsets Jem but the Finch's household recieves many gifts from the African American population of Maycomb. Jem states that his illusions of Maycomb has shattered and that he had thought that the citizens of the small town were the best in the world. I wonder how other citizens are reacting to the verdict of this case.