To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 1 Alternate Ending

In chapter five of "To Kill A Mocking Bird", the children vision Boo Radley as a frightening character. Miss Maudie claims that Boo Radley's biological name is Arthur, and he was claimed to be a "foot washing Baptist" and doesn't leave his house. "His name's Arthur and he's still alive"(Lee 43). "You know old Mr. Radley was a foot-washing Baptist"(Lee 44). "Foot-washers believe that anything that's pleasure is a sin"(Lee 44). The evidence proves how "Boo" Radley or "Arthur" Radley was a foot-washer and never left his house. Atticus also views "Boo Radley" a little differently. Atticus just informs the children to stop bugging Boo and to let him live his life the way he wants to. "I'm going to tell you something and only one time: stop tormenting that man"(Lee 49). "What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside from the attentions of inquisitive children,..."(Lee 49). Evidence explains exactly how Atticus wants the children to leave him alone and

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' many morals about the themes in the novel are portrayed through different issues and events. The major themes are appearance vs. reality courage, maturity and prejudice. Each of these themes has an event in the novel that help the reader understand its message.

1) What do we learn about Atticus Finch, his children and the town of Maycomb in the first chapter?

On Sunday, when Atticus has to leave town, Cal takes Jem and Scout to church. They enter the church, sit down, and listen to the Reverend Skyes speak. He talks about how they will all pray for Tom Robinson and his family while he is at court. Scout asks where the hymn books are, and Cal hushes her. When they sing the hymns Zeebo, Cal’s oldest son, goes up to the front of the church. Since the church doesn’t have any hymn books Zeebo has to memorize them and sing a verse to the crowd, which they repeat back to him. Near the end of church the Reverend says that they do not have enough money to give to Tom Robinson’s family. So he closes the church doors and makes the crowd give up ten more dollars to help.

Atticus Hill cherished and fostered his role as the bad boy in the family. He always dressed in all black, rode a Harley, and had long, shaggy black hair. But now that all his brothers had found their Mr. Right he thought maybe, at age thirty-nine, it was time to look around for a partner. He thought the drummer at the gay bar was sexy, so headed off there to check him out.

We will read chapter 10 in To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of the story is the 1930’s in rural Alabama where prejudice of skin color is alive and well. Atticus Finch is the protagonist in the the story and he has two young curious children named Jem and Scout. jem is a Boy Scout is a girl. When Atticus is appointed by the local judge to defend a black man accused of raping a white women most of townspeople expect only a token defense. However Atticus believes in giving the black man Tom Robison a fair trial and struggles to see justice done. A separate plot exists in the story as well it is how the children come to accept a mentally ill neighbor.

There were pretty significant moments in this novel about the trial. People that took part in the trial had different testimonies such as Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, and Heck Tate. Heck claimed that after being contacted by Bob Ewell,he went to visit the Ewell home to find Mayella on the floor beaten. He said that he saw the right side of her face badly beaten with bruises near her neck. Bob claimed that he heard Mayella screaming within the Ewell house, and when he came inside, he saw Tom run away after seeing Bob. During Atticus' cross examination, furthermore, Bob consent with a request for Tom to write his name, which he did with his left hand. Mayella claimed that she offered Tom Robinson a nickel to ”bust up the chiffarobe,”

Which would set Kid off in a wailing despair of desperation to find the offending toilet paper and correct it. Liz would simply paint her nails calmly knowing her statement was not true and Patty would chuckle watching after kid in astonishment still getting used to this quirk of his.

“Hansel was ten and his sister, Gretel, was eleven when their stepmother decided to get rid of them. They didn’t catch on at first, because Hagmom (their secret name for her) had always hated them. So leaving them behind at the supermarket or forgetting to pick them up after school was no big deal.

Beads of sweat dripped down the faces of those packed into the crowded courtroom. The lawyer turns to speak words of persuasion to the jury and thus begins the final argument. A lawyer’s closing statement is the concluding testimony that he or she states to prove the client’s innocence and shut down the opposition. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a young black man charged with false rape and assault allegations by a fearful, lonely white woman. Lee’s fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in 1933 reflects the culture of real life at the time. Our whole nation was full of segregation and black suffering. Slavery had been abolished a few years prior, but racism continued to plague the South.

-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): In chapter fourteen, their Aunt comes to live with them. Since their Aunt started to live with them, things at their house has changed a lot. One night, Jem tells Scout to behave and he starts to be mean and they get in a fight.

The sky is a bright orange hue with yellow streaks stroking over it. The September air is flowing its way back into Indio’s atmosphere with a jolting push. Its quiet, except for the distant morning cars on the nearby road.

We whizzed through the exit from the Meridian highway into the town with our four dusty cars all sneaking through the night. We drove into the square where the dirtiest building in town laid. Tonight there was extension cord hanging over the entrance with a man underneath reading a newspaper. Behind him a negro man sleeping in a cell. I looked to my right at the passenger giving him a questioning look. He cocked his gun and put the Tau Pistol into his hidden holster behind his back. We got out in pairs and walked over to where the man sat.

In the ending scene Jem brakes his arm when Bob Ewell attacked him and Scout on their way home form Scouts pageant. While they were being attack, Boo Radley goes and helps them. He carries them home, but Scout at first doesn't recognize it's Boo. Once she realizes it's Boo Radley that saved them, she walks him home. After Boo enters his home and closes the door Scout stands on the porch and sees Boo's perspective on the town. She also sees that all this time he cared for her and Jem. Finally, Scout goes home which she return to Atticus reading a book called "The Gray Ghost." As Scout is falling asleep Atticus is putting her to bed, and Scout explained how in the book some characters thought that Stoner's Boy was the one messing up their clubhouse.

I was as frightened a mouse, we would get in deep trouble if we were caught looking for Atticus. I said looking at the jail house, “That’s funny, jail doesn’t have an outside light”. When were drawing closer we saw Atticus reading a newspaper on a chair. Scout made started running toward Atticus but I stopped him. I said, “We may not disturb him, he may not like it. Let's go home, I just wanted to see where he was.” I was happy that Atticus was safe but we needed to get back home so no one would find out about this.