To Kill A Mocking Bird 2 Essay — страница 7

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how anyone can be so hypocritical as Miss Gates. Mr. Ewell is fired from his WPA job on account for drunkenness. Judge Taylor was almost attacked by Ewell in his own home but was able to scare him away. Mr. Ewell also followed and threatened Helen Robinson on her way to her new job under Mr. Link Deas. After Mr. Deas promises Mr. Ewell he will be sorry if he does not leave Helen alone, he stops. Scout tells her family about the special pageant she is participating in at the Halloween fair at the high school. Scout is dressed up as a ham. On Halloween night Scout and Jem head for the high school but when they reach the great oak tree in front of the Radley property, Cecil Jacobs leaps at them, scaring them. At the pageant Scout is so bored that she falls asleep and misses her

signal to go onstage. When she awakes and makes her entrance the audience laughs at her. Scout is so embarrassed that she decides to stay at the school until everyone leaves so she will not be laughed at. When Scout and Jem are heading home Scout forgets her shoes but Jem convinces her to get them tomorrow. As they walk home they here footsteps and someone is following them. They think that it is Cecil just trying to scare them again. When they reach the great oak tree Jem notices that it is not Cecil following them and tells Scout to run as fast as she can. Scout in her costume can not run very fast and is attacked. Her costume gets stabbed and is ruined but she is not really hurt. She realizes that there are now four people here. Scout trips over someone and sees another person

carrying Jem back to her house over his or her shoulder. Scout follows them home and Atticus and Aunt Alexandra are calling a doctor. Scout thinks Jem is dead but when Dr. Reynolds looks over Jem he confirms that he is not dead, but has badly broken his arm. Mr. Hect Tate comes over and reports that Mr. Ewell is lying dead under the great oak, stabbed with a kitchen knife. Mr. Tate asks Scout to describe what happened. After hearing Scout they realize that Mr. Ewell was trying to attack Scout and Jem as a way to get revenge on Atticus. They also realize the man who carried Jem home and saved their lives is Boo Radley. Everyone goes to the porch to talk about the incident. Atticus thinks Jem stabbed Mr. Ewell for self defense, while Mr. Tate thinks he fell on his own knife.

Atticus protests at first and thinks the sheriff is trying to cover up for Jem. Atticus realizes that it is not Jem, the sheriff wants to protect. Boo Radley, not Jem, stabbed Mr. Ewell. Mr. Tate wants to protect Boo from going to court because of the publicity and he knows how Boo is. Mr. Tate says putting Boo on trial is like killing a mockingbird. Now Scout’s dream of getting Boo out of his house is fulfilled. Scout lets Boo have one last look at Jem and then takes him by the arm back to his house. Standing on the Radley porch for the first time in her life, Scout can see as she never could before how the neighborhood, and her own childish games, must have looked to Arthur Radley, how he must have watched with shy curiosity, and enjoyed seeing their amazement when they found

his small gifts hidden in the knothole of the oak tree. Years later, when Bob Ewell attacked the children under that same tree, Arthur Radley must have felt a special obligation to protect them. Returning home, Scout finds her father sitting up reading a book of Jem’s called The Gray Ghost. Atticus refuses at first to read aloud to her. The story is a scary one, he says, and Scout has had enough scary experiences for one day. But Scout is not afraid. “Nothin’s real scary except in books,” she tells Atticus. Scout never sees Mr. Arthur Radley ever again.