Post 7

Character- Jem
Chapters: 20-24

I sat in the court house while Dill and Scout were outside. There were no sound in the court house, the only sound there was Atticus talking to the jury. Dill and Scout came back into the court house shortly after and Atticus finished up his speech. I turned around to Scout and told her that we were going to win, and suddenly I looked down to see Cal walking down the court house to Atticus. She gave him a letter and Atticus read it out loud. It was Aunt Alexandra telling him that she didn’t know where the children were and she hasn’t seen them all day. Atticus lifted his head up and scanned the court house looking for us. Mr. Underwood then tell Atticus that we have been at the court house all day and that we were up on the balcony. Atticus called us down. Dill, Scout and I walked down to the ground floor of the court house to find Cal and Atticus waiting for us. Atticus told us that we had to go back to house for supper, and if when we finished our dinner we could come back. I walked back to the house and all I could think about was the court case, and how Atticus proved to everyone that Tom Robinson never did a crime and that Mayella Ewells was lying. We got back to our house and Cal started talking to us, saying that we should be ashamed of our selfs, but I didn’t hear what she was saying all I could think about was Tom Robinson. Cal gave us our supper and told us to eat it real slow. I didn’t listen, I ate it as fast as I could and tried to get Dill and Scout to eat faster. When we finished our supper, Scout Dill and I ran back to the court house. I couldn’t believe that we were gone an hour and nothing had change. We waited for forever until the jury finally came out at 11. The 12 men on the jury come in and hand their votes off. I sat waiting to hear innocent but instead I heard the worst, guilty. I gripped the edge of the balcony as I heard guilty over and over again. I looked down to see Atticus pack up his things, whisper something to Tom, put his coat on and walk out of the courthouse. As he passed the balcony, everyone stood up to show our respect for Atticus. I walked home silently thinking about how unfair this trial was. How just because he was black, he was guilty even though all the evidence said he wasn’t. That night I cried over the verdict of the trial and I couldn’t believe that everyone else wasn’t as shocked as I was. I hardly spelt that night, I was too busy thinking about the horrible things that were going to happen to Tom Robinson.
I woke up the next morning with Scout. We walked out to the living room to see Atticus reading his morning paper. I went outside to see Dill waiting for us, we walked over to see Miss Maudie talking with Mr. Avery and Miss Stephanie Crawford. When we walked there, Miss Stephanie tried asking us different questions about the case, and what had happened, but thankfully Miss Maudie saved us by inviting us to have cake. Dill, Scout and I walked in to see a big cake and 2 little cakes, and I didn’t understand why only 2, Miss Maudie never forgot about Dill. She handed the two cakes to Scout and Dill and cut a piece off of the big cake for me. We started eating in silently until Miss Maudie said “Don’t fret, Jem. Things are never as bad as they seem.”
I could then tell that she wanted to talk to us about something very important. We all stopped eating and turned towards Miss Maudie and waited to hear what she had to say. I was starting to feel apprehensive about what was going to be said.
“I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.”
“Oh, Well.” was my subsequent answer.
Miss Maudie replied by telling me that I was not old enough to appreciate what I said. I then told her that I used to think that the people of Maycomb were the best people in world, but now I was questioning it. Miss Maudie then explained that many people in Maycomb helped Tom Robinson, people like Judge Taylor. He helped Tom by giving Atticus the case because Judge Taylor knew that Atticus would not have won the case, no one would have, but we were making steps.
Dill, Scout and I went outside to find Miss Stephanie talking to Miss Rachel. We walked over to them and Miss Stephanie told us that Bob Ewell met our father at the post office today, cursed at him, spat in his face and swore to him that he would get him one day. I couldn't believe that that pauper could even think about doing what he did to my father. From that moment I didn't know what to think about Robert Ewell and what kind of predicament my father was now in.