CHAPTER+17

TKAM Ch. 17 Chapter 17 was basically when the trial officially started. Jem and Scout came even they probably weren't supposed to come and they were sitting in the colored balcony. The first person to testify was Heck Tate. Atticus asks him about the injuries Mayella Ewell had. So Heck Tate said she had injuries all around her neck and she had a black eye on her right eye. The next person to testify was Mr. Ewell Mayella Ewell’s father. When he was testifying he was trying to make jokes like this one "Well, if ain't I can't do nothing about it now, her ma's dead," and things like that but this wasn’t a very good time for jokes because this is a very important case and rape is one the capital offense in Alabama. He just isn’t taking this case seriously even though it is his daughter that was raped. Atticus eventually figured out that Mr. Ewell was left handed so it could’ve been him who hit Mayella in the eye but it also could have been Tom Robinson if Tom is left handed too. This is what the courtroom Scout and Jem were inn probably looked like.