"To Kill a Mockingbird" Chapters 15-19 questions – Flashcards
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Who shames the lynching mob out of their purpose?
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Scout shames the lynching mob by starting to talk to Walter Cunningham Sr.'s. She talks to him about his son and entailment. This stops the anger of the crowd and everybody leaves.
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Where do Scout, Jem, and Dill sit during the trial?
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Scout, Jem, and Dill sit in yhe balcony with the black people. Reverend Sykes invited them up there.
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What is unusual about the children being seated there?
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It is unusual for the children to sit there because that is where the black people sit.
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Who is on trial?
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Tom Robinson (a black man) is on trial.
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Of what is he accused?
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Tom Robinson has been accused of raping Mayella Violet Ewell, daughter of Bob Ewell.
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What does Scout feel will be the outcome of this trial?
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At first, Scout thinks all will go well because she's watching Atticus doing a great job defending Tom. Later on she is influenced by the prejudice of the crowd and the Ewell testimony and thinks Tom might have done it.
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What does the victim claim happened?
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Mayella Ewell (the 19 yr. old victim) falsely claims that Tom came into her yard to chop wood. She went inside to get a nickel to pay him and when she turned around, he was right behind her, beat her on the right side of her face as a left handed person would do.
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What physical features of the defendant are used to discredit the victim's testimony?
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Tom's left arm was 12 in shorter than his right and hung dead at his side. He was injured at Mr. Dolphus Raymond's cotton gin.
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What does the defendant claim occurred?
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Tom was 25 yrs. old and a devoted family man. His story is the truth. 1. Tom does go in Matella's yard to chop wood. 2. She offered to pay him but he refused. 3. She asked him to do more chores inside her house. When they get inside she had sent the younger children away to get ice cream. 4. She grabbed Tom, hugged him and started kissing him. Tom ran out of the house and ran away. 5. Running away, he sees Mr. Bob Ewell looking out the window and he went in and beat Mayella because he knew she made the advances.
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What had Ewell called his daughter in the defendant's presence?
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Bob Ewell said, "You *****, I'll kill you!"
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Tom says-Tom walks past the Ewell house everyday. -Mayella asked him to come in and fix her broken door -He saw that the hinges were working perfectly fine, he wanted to leave -She asked him to get something from ontop of a large dresser, that's when she came on to him. But Mayella says hat she had never gone into the Ewell house and asked Tom to bust up a dresser, that's when Tom supposedly raped her.
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What made Tom visit the Ewell's house in the first place?
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-Mayella's father was always drinking -and her siblings were not friendly to her -she didn't go to school -her mother died -and she had no friends all her life Mayella never had someone to call her friend. She had siblings that had nothing to do with her and an abusive father.
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Why does Scout think that Mayella Ewell is the "loneliest person in the world"?
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-The are different because Mayella tries to keep clean and healthy. She tries to take care fo the house and the kids. Bob, the father, does not care about keeping clean or taking care of the kids. -They are the same because they are both telling lies in court. Neither care that Tom Robinson will be killed if the court finds him guilty of rape. They know Tom did not rape her, but would rather keep their family pride than tell the truth.
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Is Mayella like her father or different from him? In what ways?
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-She feels guilty -She wants people to believe her case and feel sorry for her -She might also be crying, because she thinks that if people see her upset, they will stop asking questions and leave her alone.
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Why might Mayella be crying in court?
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-Mayella becomes very upset at Atticus' polite ways. -She doesn't liek being called ma'am -She thinks Atticus is making fun of her, but he is really just trying to be nice -This tells us that she was never really respected as a child, she was never treated with politeness and she thinks it's condescending when people actually respect her
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How does Mayella react to Atticus' politeness? What does this tell us about her upbringing?
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Mr. Gilmer does not prove to me that Tom is guilty of raping Mayella - the reader can clearly see that tom's left arm doesn't work, so he couldn't really rape Mayella. -But the jury sees Tom as guilty of raping Mayella, because he can't see past Tom's skin color. If Tom was white, the jury wouldn't be so harsh. He sees Tom as guilty because African Americans were discriminated. Today, most people can analyzed what actually happened instead of judging only on skin color.
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How well does Mr. Gilmer prove Tom's guilt in the eyes of the reader and in the eyes of the jury?
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to show what hand he writes with. By showing that he writes with his left hand, the jury can see that maybe Bob Ewell hit his daughter, Mayella, and NOT Tom.
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Why does Atticus ask Bob Ewell to write out his name? What does the jury see when he does this?
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Ewell is left handed. Whoever hit Mayella on the night of the rape was also left handed. The brusing on her face, especially on her right eye means that someone was leading with their left hand.
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What do you learn from Bob Ewell's evidence?
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They wanted to warn Atticus that he might be in danger for defending Tom Robinson.
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What did Heck Tate's mob want?
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Their purpose was to try and lynch Tom Robinson for "raping" Mayella Ewell.
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What was the purpose of Walter Cunningham's mob?
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a man who pretended to be the town drunk to give people a reason why he was so strange by marrying a black women and hanging out with them.
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Identify and describe Mr. Dolphus Raymond:
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Because Scout diffused the mob mentality by standing between them and the jail talking to them.
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Why did Mr. Cunningham's mob leave?
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Bob Ewell's racist attorney in the case against Tom Robinson
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Mr. Gilmer
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A drunken, mostly unemployed member of Maycomb's poorest family. In his knowingly wrongful accusation that Tom Robinson raped his daughter, Ewell represents the dark side of the South: ignorance, poverty, squalor, and hate-filled racial prejudice.
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Bob Ewell
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Bob Ewell's abused, lonely, unhappy daughter. Though one can pity her because of her overbearing father, one cannot pardon her for her shameful indictment of Tom Robinson.
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Mayella Ewell
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The judge on the Tom Robinson Rape case (Not Prejudice)
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Judge Taylor
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They showed that her attacker was left-handed, like Bob Ewell
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What was the importance of Mayella's bruises being primarily on the right-hand side of her face?
