Post 6

Character: Atticus Finch
Chapters: 16-19

Today was the day of the court case, the day I would finally be able to prove to everyone that Tom Robinson was guilty. I had been waiting for this day for a long time and I woke up early to be ready. I grabbed my suitcase and was off into town. I passed by many people watching and whispering things as I walked down to the downtown court house. It seemed as if the whole town had stopped to watch me walk. I went into the court house to see Mr. Gilmer talking to Mr. Ewells and Mayella, but when I walked in, they quickly walked away from Mr. Gilmer to go out of the court house. I started getting ready as usually and it toke a long time to set up everything and get everything ready and before I knew it, it was almost none. The court house doors were opened and everyone in town piled in. On any other usually day, there would only be about ten people, but today the courthouse was filled and more people were trying to get it. There was a much talking until Judge Taylor came in. He pulled out a think cigarette, and some people people also did the same. The courthouse permitted smoking, but he did not himself indulge, instead of smoking it he eat it. Suddenly the case began and Heck Tate went up on the witness stand. I got up and started asking questions about what he thought happened. He told me that he got a call from Robert Ewells saying that Tom Robinson raped his daughter, but he also said something that caught my attention, and that was that Mayella had been hit on the right side of her face, which meant that a left handed person must have hit her. I thought that this was very strange because Tom Robinson's left hand was completely useless. Heck Tate stepped down from the witness stand and Mr. Robert Ewells stepped up. I asked what he say and he told me the same story, but I really was not interested in the story. I asked him to write his name on the back of an envelope I had. Mr. Ewells wrote on the envelope and looked up complacently to see Judge Taylor looking down on him. He asked what was so interesting and we asked, he was left handed. Mr. Ewells stepped down from the witness stand and Mayella went up and then started crying. Judge Taylor asked her what was wrong and she told him that she was scared of me because of what I did to her papa. I felt someone proud because that proved to me that I was on to something. I then proceeded amiably and I knew that there was something stealthy about her. I asked her first about her home life, just so that the jury could understand what kind of a life she lived. I also asked her about her father, and she started “He does tollable, 'cept when-”

I turned around to face Mayelle “Except when he is drinking?” I asked

She nodded her head. I asked her if he even hit her, but she said no. I then got a thought I asked her where her brother and sisters were and why they didn't hear her, I got no answer. I then asked her if she only screamed when she say her father, no answer, if it was really Tom who had beat her or was it her father, no answer, if her father really see the crime of rape or the best dense to it. Suddenly Mayelle became articulate and said "I got somethin' to say an' then I ani't gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me an' if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stickin' cowards, stickin' cowards, the lot of. Your fancy air don't come to nothin' -your ma'amin and Miss Mayellerin' don't come to nothin', Mr. Finch-"

She bursted into real tears, thinking about her predicament.

Post 5

Character: Dill
Chapter: 13-15

Mom had just gotten married, to a guy that I really liked. He promised me that we would build a boat and I couldn’t wait to start building. Suddenly days and weeks had pasted and nothing happened. He did not even mention the boat idea again, I kept asking mom when we were going to build it but she would just tell me to go away and play with my toys. One thing that had changed for the better was that I was getting a lot of new toys. Every weekend my family and I would walk around downtown and go in and out of stores. Whenever I would see a book or toy that I really wanted, mom or her new husband would get it for me. We would then go home and I played with it for a while, and then it was just another toy. I whenever I felt bored I would just go with my mom and we would do something together, but ever since she got married again whenever I wanted to be with her, she would just tell me to go away and play with my toys. I would usually just sit in my room thinking about the plans I had made to get Boo Radley emerge from his house. I would think about Scout and Jem so long I would be oblivious when my mom and step-dad left. After a while it seemed like I never saw my parents and I would just in my room all day thinking about Scout and Jem. It got so bad one day I knew what I needed to do, run away. I waited ‘til the dead of night and then packed up all I needed, toke $13 from my mom and headed out on the road. I got on the train to Maycomb, the one place I was truly happy.

I sat on the train, looking pensive while thinking about my soon to be wife, Scout. The train lasted for a long time and when it stopped I had to walk man miles in the dark by myself. While I was walking, I started thinking about what I would do when I got to Maycomb. Would I knock on their door, sneak into their room or treehouse or just go straight to Aunt Rachel. I soon came to the conclusion that the best thing to do was to sneak into Scout’s room and hid under the bed until Scout found me.

I heard Jem and Scout fighting about something, I wanted so much to go into Jem’s room and help Scout. Jem was twice as big Scout and he could beat her up so easily. I was about to go and help Scout out, but then I heard Atticus’s voice and then Scout came in. It was dark and she stepped on my stomach. I then went back under her bed, and Scout turned on the light and went got Jim who then went downstairs to get a broom. He started swiping the broom under the bed trying to hit me. He suddenly stopped and I came up from under the bed. Scout and Jem looked shock to me, but suddenly the shock turned into excitement. They asked me how I got here, and I told them that my step father had locked me up in chains and I had to break free and join the circus, washing the camels. I told them that I traveled with the show through all of Mississippi until my infallible sense of direction told me that I was close to Abbott County which was just across the river from Maycomb. When I finished telling them my story, Jem ran down stairs got Atticus and brought him to Scout’s room. I then told him that I ran away from my home and begged him not to send me home or to Aunt Rachel’s. Atticus then called Aunt Rachel’s to tell her that I was here, and ask her if I was able to stay. After many phone calls and much pleading on behalf of me, the defendant, it was decided that I could stay. After a week of staying with the Finches I was off to Aunt Rachel’s and one night as I was reading, I hear a knock on my window. I looked out to see Jem and Scout, and I then got dressed and went outside to go with them. We went downtown to try and find Atticus and we found next to the jail next to a group of people that I had never seen. Scout went up to Atticus and started talking to a man I have never meant. Jem and I followed slowly and made up to Atticus and the group of people. Scout then started talking to a lot of people, while everyone else just kept quite. Soon everyone left got back in their cars and we walked home and I offered to carry Atticus’s chair home. Atticus then started talking to a man named Tom Robinson. They talked for a while and we walked home in silence was I was encumbered by the chair.