To play this quiz, please finish editing it. Delete Quiz. Question 1. Complains that Atticus is the reason he got fired from his job. Harasses Helen Robinson as she goes to and from work at Link Deas. Breaks into Judge Taylor's home.
Throws a brick through Jem's window. What do the victims of Bob Ewell's aggressions all have in common? They just happen to be in his way when he goes into a rage. They are all wealthier than he is. They all are in some way related to the Tom Robinson trial.
What is likely to have caused Bob Ewell to seek a job? He is poor and needs the money. He wants to improve his reputation in Maycomb. His wife threatens to leave him. The court requires him to get a job. What reason does Aunt Alexandra believe is driving Bob Ewell to be aggressive to people? He holds a grudge against those involved with the trial for making him look foolish.
He is jealous that everyone else has a job and he doesn't. Aunt Alexandra believes that because he is not Christian and not "their kind of people" he holds a grudge. She thinks he is just a drunk and can't help his behavior and should be forgiven. What is Scout's costume for the Halloween pageant? Who takes Scout to the Halloween Pageant? What does Atticus believe about Bob Ewell's behavior? He is worried about it and contacts Heck Tate for help. He is worried about it and buys a gun for the first time.
He trusts that Bob Ewell will get over it and be rational. He is cautious, but not panicking Why does Maycomb hold the Halloween Pageant this year? To prevent unsupervised mischief from happening around town. To raise money for the poor. To generate income for the restaurants and other businesses in town. Nobody knows. It's just tradition. What is the theme of the pageant? Someone — Scout assumes it's Jem — pulls the attacker off her.
Scout calls for Jem but gets no answer other than heavy breathing. She heads toward the breath sounds, feeling for Jem. When she touches the man's stubble, she knows he isn't Jem. Scout works to reorient herself and finally sees a strange man carrying Jem to their front door. Aunt Alexandra calls for the doctor, and Atticus calls for the sheriff.
Scout fears that Jem is dead, but Aunt Alexandra tells her that he's only unconscious as she works to disentangle Scout from the chicken wire. With Atticus is the man who brought Jem home. Scout has never seen him before. Sheriff Tate then announces that he found Bob Ewell dead under the tree where Scout and Jem were attacked. These two chapters comprise the novel's climax. Lee sets everything up beautifully by turning the story into a mystery of sorts, using foreshadowing to provide the reader with clues to the resolution.
The foreshadowing begins when Scout says that three things of interest happened during the fall that "did not directly concern us — the Finches — but in a way they did.
He loses another job, and he tries to break into Judge Taylor's house. Ewell also makes it nearly impossible for Helen Robinson to get to work. The acts of revenge toward the judge and Helen hint that Ewell is serious about his earlier threats to get even with Atticus. Ewell is angry because as Atticus puts it, "'He thought he'd be a hero, but all he got for his pain was. Unfortunately, the community didn't believe his story. He loses a public job because of laziness, and realizes that he's been proven a liar and made to look a fool.
Why does Mr. Nathan Radley put cement in the knothole? Jem tells Scout not to cry, then questions Mr. Scout immediately informs Dill that he has been caught in a lie and Dill attempts to cover up his lie by saying that his father had shaved off his beard last summer.
Dill continues to lie by telling Scout that his father sent him a letter to prove that he shaved his beard. Dill was lonely. He tells lies because he wants other people to like him and want to spend time with him. The lies he tells are designed to make himself sound interesting, so people will want to be with him. Scout had caught him in a lie, but Dill simply explained that his daddy had shaved it off the previous summer.
Dill is talking about how Boo must have a very long beard having been inside the house for so long. Among other things, he had been up in a mail plane seventeen times, he had been to Nova Scotia, he had seen an elephant, and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him his sword.
Why does Miss Maudie hate her house?
0コメント