TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (3RD SUMMARY)

3RD SUMMARY 

CHAPTER 16-22

PAGE 155-217

 

            The Atticus’s trial begins next day. Every town people come to the trial except Ms. Maudie. Jem, Scout, and Dill wait people to enter the courthouse that makes Atticus not to see them. But there are too much people, so they sit where Black people sit. The prosecutor, Mr Glimer asks questions to Heck Tate. Bob Ewell tells when he goes to home with Gilmer, her daughter Mayell raped by Tom. Ewell is saying that he heard yelling outside of his house and saw Tom raping her. 

Ewell’s daughter says that she called Tom in the evening and gave him a nickel to break a dresser for her. And then Atticus asks why she didn’t yell loud that makes other people to come and how Tom bruised her face with his useless left hand. Atticus answers that there was no rape and her father hit her. She yells to the Atticus in the courtroom and cries. Tom testifies that he always passed Ewell house to go to his work. On that evening, Mayella told Tom to come in her house and made him to lift a box down from a dresser. When he went up, she grabbed his legs, hugged him and asked him to kiss her. Suddenly her father came and Tom escaped.

Tom’s employer says that he never had any trouble when he is working. In Maycomb, Black people shouldn’t feel sorry for a White person. Mar. Glimer says Tom is telling a lie. Dill is crying and drinks some liquid. When the children go back to the courtroom, it is almost finish. Atticus says that the victims don’t have evidence for the crime and the physical evidence shows that Bob Ewell his Mayella.

After that, Calpurnia come in and tells Atticus that children didn’t go home yet. Atticus tells them to go home and eat dinner. Calpurnia goes home with the children, eat dinner and return to courtroom. After eleven O’clock, jury comes in and gives a verdict of guilty. Everyone cries on that night. The next day, Ms. Maudie asks about the trial to the children and gives them a cake. When they finish eating, Ms. Stephanie runs to them. She says in the morning, Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he would get him if it took the rest of his life.