CHAPTER+23

In Chapter 23 Atticus tells Jem and Scout important things they didn't know. Atticus tells them that, "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash"(220). Atticus is trying to teach Jem and Scout that it's bad to miss use your power to inflict harm on others, like how Bob Ewell miss used his power of being white on Tom Robinson, to cover up his beating on Mayella and wanting more popularity. Also, we learn that one of the Cunninghams, (that we thought were bad) is a good person, "You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down--in the beginning he was rarin' for an outright acquittal....Atticus's eyes twinkled. "It's not for me to say, but i'll tell you this much. He was one of your Old Sarum friends..."(222). This shows that Atticus did a very good job defending Tom Robinson even though he lost because he turned someone who wanted to lynch Tom into someone that wanted to save him in just a couple of hours.