Chapters 28, 29, 30, and 31

Jem and Scout After the Pagent

What a horrible night. Tonight was the night of the Halloween party at the school, which was horrible itself because I embarrassed myself my missing my entrance during the pageant since I fell asleep, but I dont want to talk about the pageant right now. It was the walk home that was the worse part. Jem and I were on our way home, and we knew someone was following us. It was very dark and we couldn't see a thing, but we thought it might just have been Cecil Jacobs since he was popping up and trying to scare us all night. We were wrong, for little did we know it was much more then Cecil. Before I knew it, Jem is telling me to run, but I could barely walk in my let alone run, so Jem ends up dragging me along to the street while all the while someone is running after us. This person catches up to us, and stabbed at me, but luckily my big custom prevented any harm. I wish I could say the same for Jem. I heard a snap and the Jem screaming. It was very frightening. I ran to go help Jem when I was grabbed, but then suddenly let go. I tried to get Jem but only saw a man I did not recognize. I realized he was carrying Jem back to our house so I followed him there.

Boo Radley Saving Jem

When we reach home, Aunt Alexandra called the doctor for Jem, and it turns out that he was knocked unconscious and had a broken arm. Suddenly, the sheriff appears at our house and tell Atticus that Bob Ewell was found dead under the tree where we attacked. I walked into Jem's room to check on him when I see the same man I did not recognize in the room as well. Finally, it dawned on me that it was Boo Radley. I will admit I was scared at first, but then realized he saved Jem and I from Bob. I wanted to show how thankful I was to him for what he has done, so I walked him home. I'll never forget what he done for us.

Chapters 22,23,24, 25 and 27

Bob Spits at Atticus

It has gotten pretty bad around Maycomb lately. It all started when Bob Ewell threatened Atticus and then spat in his face. Mr. Ewell was still bitter and holding a bad grudge over Atticus for making him look bad during the trail and helping Tom Robinson. Of course, Atticus was mature about the situation and stayed calm, since he is the better man. Afterwards when Atticus came home and told us all about it, Aunt Alexandra, Jem and I were all very nervous that Mr. Ewell would follow through with his threats. Atticus told us not to worry though, and that that would be the worst of it, but boy he was wrong. In August, Atticus brings the bad news that Tom Robinson was shot several times while trying to escape from the prison. After this event happened, someone overheard Bob saying the words "One down and about two more to go..." And I'm afraid to think that Atticus might be one of those two people.

Bob Ewell

In more recent events,  Judge Taylor has spotted Bob Ewell following Tom's wife, Helen, to work. Judge Taylor threatened Bob by saying if he didn't leave Helen alone, he would have him arrested,  and since then their hasn't been any other problems. Aunt Alexandra is still worried, and I think I still might be too. But enough about the bad things that have been happening around here. Good news is that this Halloween, their is a party and a play at the school! I'm dressing as a ham, and me and Jem are going together. Finally things are looking up.

Chapters 18,19,20 and 21

Mayella and Bob Ewell in the Courtroom

 Throughout the whole trial, I learned that the girl who accusing Tom of rape, is the oldest of many kids in her family and is very lonely. She does most the work in the house out of all of the kids. They all live together with their father, Bob Ewell, who is a drunk, behind the town dump. According to her and Mr. Ewell, Tom walked by her house and was asked ny her to help with something inside. Then supposedly, Mayella screamed for help, and Tom was caught raping her by Mr. Ewell. That is when he ran from the house. But Tom's story was different, he said he never touched her and that she hugged him around the waist and asked him to kiss her. Then her father appeared in the window and threatened her, that's when Tom ran away.

Atticus and Tom Robinson in the Courtroom

I found myself believing Tom's story more believable towards the end of the trial when Atticus made the point that they have no real evidence. They never called a doctor to check out Mayella, so they can't prove that she was raped, and all the bruising on her face suggest that it couldn't of been Tom. Plus they don't even have any eye witnesses other then Mayella and her father. All the jury has against Tom is a story from a white man. Jem was so sure that Atticus was successful and that Tom would be not guilty, but as soon as the Jury came out, I knew that Jem was wrong. Atticus told me that a jury never looks a convicted man in the eye, and they didn't. Tom was announced guilty. Jem was very upset.

Chapters 15, 16 and 17

Mob

It was the most terrible night. It started off with Atticus taking the car into town, which he never does. Jem wanted to go see what Atticus was up to, so he, Dill and I sneaked out of the house to follow him late in the night. We found him at the town jail with a group of people arguing about something. I ran to Atticus, expecting everything to be fine and Jem and Dill run after me to try and stop me, but I made it to the group of people. Atticus tells us to leave but Jem refuses. In the group, I find Walter Cunningham's dad, and try to talk to him. He was very quite though, and then he and his group of people left. Later that night, I figured that it wasn't a group of people, it was a mob. And they would of hurt Atticus if we didn't show up, or worse.

Jem, Dill and I in the Courtroom

The next day was the day of Tom Robinson's. People from everywhere seemed to be coming to it, except Miss Maudie who said it wasn't right. Jem, Dill and I go anyway and try to sneak in without Atticus knowing us, but to our disappointment, there was no seats left. Reverend Sykes finds us though, and lets us sit with the colored people in the balcony section. From that few we could almost see the whole courtroom. My favorite part of the whole trial is when Atticus cross-exams Mr. Ewell by showing the jury that he is left handed, and telling them that Tom Robinson left hand is crippled, and he could possibly of bruised the right side of Mayella's face as he was also accused of.

Chapter 12, 13 and 14

Calpurnia's chruch

Jem and I went with Calpurnia to her church the other day. We both felt unwelcome at first when this colored women came up to us and was aggravated with Calpurnia for bringing us white children to their place, but the Reverend said otherwise. Their church ways are a bit different then ours. Instead of everyone having their own hymnals to sing from, only one person does. He sings one line from the song and then everyone else repeats after him. I found out they did this because the church can't afford books for everyone, and even if they did, none of the people would be able to read from it. Near the end of the service the reverend asks for collection of money for a person named Tom Robinson's family. This is the person Atticus is defending in court. Tom's wife can't find work anymore to support her kids, so when not a lot of donations are given, the Reverend wouldn't let anyone leave the church until he had 10 dollars. It was a very different experience from what my brother and I know.

I also found out that my Aunt Alexandra is going to be staying at our house for awhile. I don't like it that much since she only cares about how we look and wants me to start wearing dresses. She also told me that I couldn't go back to the church with Calpurnia, which I don't think she really has a say in, but Atticus told me to listen to her, so I suppose I will have to endure her stay.

Dill

In other news Dill ran away from home and came to our house. I found him under my bed one night. He wasn't suppose to visit Maycomb this summer since his mother got remarried and he was going to stay with them in Meridian. He came here though because ever since his new father came along, he feels like he isn't cared enough for by his mom. Jem goes on and tells on him by telling Atticus about Dill's arrival. Atticus wasn't mad, but did tell his Aunt Rachel about him being in Maycomb. I just hope hes able to stay with us.