To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapters 22-25

•Chapter 22: Did Bob Ewell send Atticus a death threat???
•Chapter 23: Why would Bob send Atticus a death threat if he so called won the case? Besides, it's not like Atticus had a choice whether or not to defend Tom Robinson. He was assigned to defend him so why is Mr. Ewell so worked up about it? It's not possible for there to have been more than one witness for "Mayella's rape" because only Bob Ewell saw it.. didn't he? I agree with Jem when he says that in court, the judge should be the one to decide whether someone is guilty or not. Also, it is highly unfair that the Ewell's won just because they were white and Tom was black. Although, I do find it amusing on page 221 where it says, "I doubt we'd ever get a complete case tried-the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions." What's an acquittal? And I don't like how Aunt Alexandria is acting towards Scout and Walter. Let me say, if I was in Scout's shoes, and my mean aunt came over then I would be grounded.. A LOT. Finally, another mention of Boo Radley. Last page of the chapter..

To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapters 22-25

It wasn't cool of Mr. Ewell to spot his chewing tobacco at Atticus. He certainly didn't handle things correctly.

To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapters 22-25

In the reading, Jem was very upset  with the court's decision and said, "I thought the citizens of Maycomb were the best citizens in the world". Although Scout thinks that Jem is acting like an adult, I think he still has a long way to go. When you are children, you aren't aware of the horrors in the world because you are innocent. Jem and Scout, however, are still innocent. Both characters have a long way to go to grow up and I believe the rest of the story may focus on this.

Chapters22-25

I felt bad that Tom died. I don't understan why he felt the need to run away when Atticus told him that he had a good chance of winning. What Scout said about people being hypocrites makes sense. During aunt alexandra's meeting all of the ladies act differently than they normally would. This also relates to the courthouse. All of those men knew that Tom was innocent but sent him to jail anyway. Everything in this book is carried out in a way that makes people likable in society's perspective. 

TKAM Chapters 26-31

Chapter 26: In this chapter you learn that Atticus did in fact know everything that went on that summer night Dill, Jem, and Scout attempted to sneak into the Radely's house. It was not until Scout brought it up again that Atticus put his input in. I think that Atticus wanted the children to learn for themselves that what they had done was wrong. They wouldn't have listened if Atticus had punished them, their curiosity still would have gotten the best of them. Also when Scout talks about how her class has to do current events it shows the division between her classmates by the articles they bring in.

Chapter 27: When Bob Ewell gets a job and then looses it due to laziness he blames it on Atticus. I predict that Bob Ewell is going to try and go after Atticus to some how prove a point to himself and others. Not only will he go after Atticus but most likely Judge Taylor to, due to the fact that he tried to break into his house. Also, Mr. Ewell was harassing Hellen Robinson. It seems to me that he is trying to get back at everyone who didn't believe his lies.

Chapter 28: I didn't find it a shocker when I found out in this chapter that Bob Ewell was the person who went after Scout and Jem. The spotlight was no longer on him and he was desperate for attention. Atticus some how took that away from Bob and it seemed as if Bob wanted to take something away from Atticus. Therefore, thats why he went after the children.

Chapter 29: In this chapter Scout just seemed to know that the man standing in the corner was Boo. After all these years of attempting to see him its as if she knew him all along. Through the clues that were given throughout the book I was able to pick up that Boo wasn't a bad guy after all

Chapter 30: I feel that Atticus's main goals in life was to care for his children and stay true to what he believed in. Being that Atticus thought Jem killed Bob Ewell he didn't want to let him off easy, he didn't want to come off as a fake. Thats why it took a stern Heck Tate to change his view on the whole situation. I think that Atticus is a good father. Whether him or the people around him think the opposite I disagree. Scout and Jem do go off on their own a lot but they know whats good and they know whats right. They are honest and caring and show signs of being successful, thats all you can ask for from a child. 

Chapter 31: Out of all the chapters this by far is my favorite one. It sums everything up in a matter of a couple paragraphs. Also, it shows the street through Boo's view, which showed him being able to see everything. My favorite part is "Autumn again, and Boo's children needed him". When the author wrote children down she was referring to Jem and Scout. It seems to me that Boo was there all along watching and protecting them, he cared about them as if they were his own. 

To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 22-25

In these chapters you really saw how people reacted and felt about the trial and Tom's convictiton. For Jem and Scout you saw that it they thought its unfair and cruel. For people who were close to Tom you saw that they were sad but very thankful to Atticus because he did try to prove them right. You saw from Aunt Alexandria that she didn't care about Tom so much as Atticus who was all over the place. And from some of the ladies the party that they didn't care about Tom or how their workers were disappointed and aggravated and just thought that it was his fault. This made the chapters really good and reveal what human life is like. The same goes with Tom's death and how people reacted and how it's a seriously thing and there were still people saying that Tom was just like everybody else. 

To Kill A Mockingbird: Chapters 22-25

In these chapters, Jem begins to realize the cruelty of adulthood. In his heart, he knows Tom Robinson is innocent and did not deserve to lose the trial. Jem heard all of the evidence and believes the jury should have voted that Tom Robinson was guilty. He is angry that the 12 men did not vote the right way. Jem believed his whole life that the people of Maycomb County were the best people. He realizes that they are not if they have so much hate towards Tom Robinson. Aunt Alexandra is still obsessed over the family name. When Atticus tells Jem and Scout that one of the Cunninghams wanted to acquit. Scout now has a lot of respect for Walter and wants to invite him over for dinner. Aunt Alexandra does not agree with this. She believes that the Cunninghams are trash and that Jem and Scout should not hang out with him. I do not like this about Aunt Alexandra , she should not care about this so much she should do the right thing. In Chapter 24, Aunt Alexandra has a group of mission friends over. They talk about the Mrunas and how they are converting to Christian and how the Negroes are acting up ever since Tom Robinson. I absolutely love Ms. Maudey in this chapter because she stands up for what she believes in and put all the women on the spot. Atticus arrives home and says Tom Robinson had died. This is really sad because everyone had a lot of hope for him. I am really scared for the children because Bob Ewell had said he had one down and two to go. This means he might go after the children which is so crazy. He is just doing this to get back at Atticus for making him look foolish during trial.

Chapter 25

The Tom Robinson story tarts to dies own in a couple of days until something is posted in the Maycomb paper. While walking back home dill and scout over hear mr. Ewell screaming and saying 1 down 2 to go. The obvious person could be the other is Atticus since he was defending Tom. Another could be judge Taylor because he made a food of the dwells and treated them like crap in mr ewells mind. So I think that mr Ewell will now try to get back at them some way or another considering his life sucks anyway.

TKAM Chapter 25

Chapter 25, a very short chapter, explained to us what happened when Atticus and Calpurnia when to go tell Mrs. Robinson what happened to Tom after he was shot trying to escape from prison. When she was told, Dill told Scout that she "just fell to the floor into the dirt", that she fell like an ant, and you cant help but feel sorry for her. She or Tom did nothing.

TKAM Chapter 19-21

What I wanted to talk about in these chapters, is in Chapter 20, when Atticus gives his final speech. The passion and power he put into this speech, made me doubt that any jury would convict this man as guilty. The way he says that according to Thomas Jefferson, every man is born equal, yet this is wrong because every man is not equal. The way the author wrote this was just so powerful, that if I was part of that jury I would have fought for Tom Robinson's freedom, as all the evidence was with him, and Atticus' speech would get rid of any doubt in my mind about him being guilty.

TKAM Chapters 26-31

Throughout these chapters there was one main event that really caught my attention. This was when Jem and Scout were walking home in the dark after the pageant and were attacked by Bob Ewell. In this incident Bob attacks Scout and tries to stab her but her costume prevents him from causing any physical harm. However, he was successful in hurting Jem because he wound up with a broken arm and a bump on his head. After they had been attacked, Scout couldn't find Jem but when she returned home she saw a man carrying her brother back to the house. She later found out that this man was Boo Radley and that he had stabbed Bob Ewell and killed him to protect him from causing any further harm to anyone else who participated in the trial. This event really took me by surprise. I assumed Boo Radley would somehow have a role near the end of the book but I never would have guessed he would have saved Jem and Scout's lives. Although we still don't know much about him besides the rumors some of the characters have been told, after this incident we can infer that Boo Radley may actually be a decent person and maybe these rumors weren't true. However, after discovering that Boo Radley had stabbed Bob Ewell, Heck Tate decided to keep quiet about it because he doesn't want him to have to deal with anymore rumors about him being a criminal when he may actually be a good person.

TKAM Ch. 26-End

Scout's reaction to Boo Radley saving her was surprising.  She was saved by him and the fact that she had on the ham costume helped her survive the attack by Bob Ewell. However, Jem broke his arm in the fight and Boo carried him home.  This seems to be the man that does not have much to say and he does not seem to want to interact with others, but is a very nice and helpful man.  Scout was excited and happy to have Boo at the fight because it saved their lives.  He still does not interact with anyone after the fight and goes back to his normal life.  Also, Scout feels bad that they cannot give him anything after he put all those things in the tree for them.

To Kill A Mockingbird Ch. 26 - End

        Boo is real!  We finally get a glimpse of Boo in these final chapters.  All along he was looking out for the children.  If it hadn't been for him they'd have been killed.  Scout describes his manor with her as as if it had been all his life.  I think Boo knows the kids better than they think.  He probably watched them their entire life.  At the end when Scout was standing on the Radley place she said she finally understood what Atticus meant by standing in his skin.  She could finally see his perspective on the world.  I think in the end Jem is the ultimate mockingbird.  He was someone who had done no harm to anyone including te person who broke his arm Bob Ewell. On top of his physical injury, he was left confused about life, and peoples predispositions and nature in general.  He was an innocent bistandard who was only guilty of being a child.  Great book, especially having read it before it gives you a better understanding of what your reading. 

Tkam final ending

In the final chapters Boo Radley finally comes out of hiding and turns out to be a really nice guy. I believe Boo may have been a little socially inept though. I say this because he was raised a foot washing baptist and I don't think he ever really had time to socialize with people his age. What I learned from this was that no matter who some one is don't pass judgment on them from what other people say about him because in the end he could be the nicest person in the world. 

TKAM:19-21

These chapters are the most important in the book. Mayella reveals her father beats her, then says, "He never laid a finger on her," and at that point it is clear who had beat her. In the end, Atticus tries to prove that it was actually Mayella who had tried to seduce TR and when he ran, Bob Ewell saw and beat Mayella for going after a black man. Though there was so much evidence supporting Atticus' theory, Tom Robinson was still convicted. I found these things very interesting. Even with evidence, there was predjuice and discrimination. Atticus worked so hard and I feel bad for him and especially for TR who is being un rightfully convicted. Why can't these people open their eyes? CLEARLY it wasn't TR, it was Bob Ewell!

To Kill a Mockingbird: 26-End

Chapter 26 is a very simple chapter, in retrospect: Scout learns about hypocrisy, although not by that word, and discovers that Jem is trying to wipe out the memory of the Tom Robinson trial. I don't really have much of a comment on either of those things, it's easily understandable why Jem would try to forget, seeing as he is just like Atticus in the fact that he believes in equality and justice, and it would make sense that Mrs. Gates, Scout's teacher, would have to say that prejudice is bad in a teaching situation. I don't blame her for being a hypocrite, but I still don't justify it.
Chapter 27's events, or lack thereof, is hard to find anything to talk about. However, there is this one part that I always found weird: Whenever the Mrunas were spoken of, it seems like their state of affairs were so terrible. However, they also want to fix their sense of family, too. I don't think there's anything wrong with having a large group of people pretty much be your family.
Chapter 28 was rather swift and unexpected, and Scout's muddied perspective due to the ham costume was ingenious. It allowed for everything to remain a mystery. When I was reading it, I only realized halfway through that they were being attacked, however, I knew from that moment that it had to be Bob Ewell, trying to get revenge by preying on the weak, just as he had been doing the entire book. The end, however, was unexpected and expected in a way. The description of the attack was too unclear to really know what happened, but I knew that Bob Ewell probably got hurt in some way or another, Where the Red Fern Grows style.
Well, I can't say I didn't see this coming, but I didn't expect it to come out this way. For chapter 29's events, the reveal that Boo Radley was the one who saved Scout and Jem was a surprise, but one that I had been anticipating slightly the entire book. The author had hid his character the entire time, but gave hints that he was a nice person, so it was necessary to have him do some heroic deed in his big reveal in the book. It was telegraphed enough to be expected, but not enough to be obvious, which is really hard to do in a book. At least, from what I've seen.
In chapter 30, I honestly didn't expect Atticus to be pushing so hard for his son to get tried of murder. I know that he's a man of equality and justice, but when the likelihood of a man stabbing themselves to death being so high, and that the only witness is a panicked little girl in a ham suit, then there'd be too little evidence to go to court on charges of murder. Still, this side of Atticus was an honest shock to see.
Chapter 31, the grand finale, didn't exactly feel like a grand finale. It ended in a flat, dull note, but I guess that's the goal the author was going for. A return to the daily grind. Regardless, it was an end that felt right. It just felt like it was the way to end it. Not on a big note, but on a subtle, sharp note that makes you realize everything you didn't before. The beginning of the book now makes sense, at least.

Overall, I enjoyed the book. It was confusing at times, but that was on purpose. You were supposed to understand what Scout could not, which made this feel a lot more readable, but a lot less accessible. To understand the deeper meanings of things, some guidance would be required.

To Kill a Mockingbird Chpt. 20+21

You know that Tom is going to get convicted for the crime no matter what but in all fairness and moral right, he was innocent. I was surprised that Atticus let them back in. It was very mature situation in there and he let them in anyway. I still feel bad for Tom though and I wonder what happens next for him.

TKAM chapter 22+23+24

In these chapters, we learn really how bad Mr. Ewell really is. Not only does he convict Tom Robinson of rape, and going along with it. But, we also find that, the day after the trail, Bob Ewell goes up to Atticus and spits in his face, threating to kill him. Not only has he put a death threat onto Atticus' head, he also scares both Scout and Jem out of their skins. So it really shows how inconsiderate and mean Bob Ewell is too other people.

TKAM: the end

I LOVE the way that this book ended. I knew this entire time that boo was going to end up being the good guy, and I was happy to find out that I was right. The whole part where scout and Jem got attacked by Mr. Ewell went by so fast and I was very confused when I first read it, but I read it again and then I was totally  shocked! I am just in shock from these chapters, what a great ending. I honestly did not think that I would like this book as much as I did, but I am very happy that I did read it and I did not expect an ending like that. I didn't know how it would end because so much happened in this book, but it all came together in the end. All I have to say is "wow"

TKAM Final Chapters

I would say the author left nothing unsolved.  Bob Ewell got what he deserved in the end, especially after what he tried to do to Scout and Jem.  The identity of Aurthur Radley had been revealed.  Personally, I think the author made him out to be slightly mentally challenged, and this would be the reason he stays inside much of the time.  Either this, or he was just overly socially deprived.

Other people said the book ended poorly, but I think that the author couldn't have ended it better.  Especially when an author only writes one book, it is good to clear up any confusion before finishing.  I don't know what they didn't like about it, but I felt the ending was great.