27 and 28

Our school Halloween pageant is coming up. My costume was a ham. Atticus was busy, so Jem took me to the pageant. To get to school we had to walk past the Radley house. Then through the woods and then we were at the school. I messed up walking to the center of the stage during the pageant. I was a little late, but besides that the pageant was good..

 After the show Jem and I were walking home when I realized I forgot my shoes at the school. So we turned back and went looking for them, but the lights were off so we were searching in the dark. When we were looking Jem  heard something in the distance. We stopped moving to hear it better but the noise stopped to. So then we went on looking when we heard it again. We stopped immediately, but this time the noise didn't. Jem screamed "RUN!" and I was gone. then I heard Jem screaming in pain. Then all the madness suddenly stopped. I later found out the Bob Ewell broke Jems arm because he was trying to kill us to get back at Atticus. But Boo Radley saved us by stabbing Bob

 

 

 

23 and 24

Atticus was threatened by Bob because of what he has done in the trial. Mr. Ewell is a scary man so his threat worried me for my fathers sake. some how though Atticus does seem scared at all. Tom was imprisoned far away from here. But Atticus still thinks Tom can be acquitted. I asked Atticus what would happen to Tom if he was found guilty. Atticus said if he was he would be thrown in the electric chair for raping Mayella.








Terrible news arrived today. Atticus told me that Tom tried to escape from his prison and was shot dead. I couldn't believe the news. I knew Tom was going to die, so I guess I could understand why he took the chance and tried to escape. I just never really grasped the fact that he was going to die so I took it really hard. My mind was racing and I couldn't stop thinking about his death. Later on Atticus and Calpurnia went to the Robinson's to announce Tom's death.

20 and 21

The trial was coming to an end ,when Atticus made his closing speech to the people. Atticus tells everyone how black people are just like everyone else, and should be treated just the same because anyone's skin color doesn't define them as a person. He ended the trial with that impacting speech. then goes further on to say not all blacks are criminals. This is when I realized how much Atticus cares about this trial and stopping discrimination.







When the trial ended Calpurnia came into the courtroom. She handed Atticus a note. That's when I realized what that note had said once Atticus looked up at us sitting in the balcony. He didn't want us to witness this trial because it was to grown up for us. Then Calpurnia took us home to have dinner. We begged and begged to stay because we wanted to hear the verdict of the trial. But Calpurnia said we could come back when we were finished with our dinner.

18 and 19

  Atticus talks to Mayella on the stand. Atticus got Mayella to admit that she was a lonely girl who had no friends and a drunken father. He began interrogating her, saying that her father hit her. That's when Mayella started crying and refusing any more questions. Atticus says that a left handed man hit her, but Toms left arm was destroyed by a cotton gin when he was younger. so that makes it impossible for Tom to have hit her on her right side.









Tom was then summand to the stand for questioning. Tom explained his side of the story. That every day he walks by and one day Mayella called him for help. Tom being the good hearted person he his felt bad and helped Mayella. when he went in side that's when she threw herself on him and started kissing Tom. That's when Tom ran away because he thought Bob would kill him because he looked like the victim from Bob's perspective.

16 and 17

Tom Robinson's trial started today. Miss Maudi was the only one in town who didn't come to the trial. Jem, Dill and I were waiting for everyone to enter so we could sneak through the back without anyone seeing us, expecially Atticus. Thankfully Reverend Sykes saw us, because he lets us sit at the balcony with all the black people and we get great a view of the whole court room.

 

          when Atticus began to interrogate Heck Tate, Atticus got Tate to admit there was no doctor envolved in the incident. Atticus continue to get out of Tate that Mayella, the one who accused Tom of rape, was bruised on the right side of her face. Bob says that when he heard Mayella yelling, he came running with a shot gun and when he reached the house, he saw Tom raping her. Atticus interrogation was short because he had Bob write his name. Bob signed his name with his left hand and that's when Atticus said it easier for a left handed person to hit the Mayella on the right side of her face.