CHAPTER+15

Chapter 15 In this chapter or in 15, it starts of with the family in the living room. Jem and Scout on the floor reading, Atticus in his reading until there was a knock and Atticus had to go outside. Jem turned the lights off and the kids were spying at the doors and at the windows. They thought Atticus was talking to gang member but he wasn’t. The next day was Sunday and Atticus left in the car with an electrical cord and a light bulb to go somewhere the kids do not. Scout gives peculiarities about her father. “ My father has few peculiarities: he never ate desserts another was that he likes to walk. As far back as I could remember, there was always a Chevrolet in excellent condition in the carhouse, and Atticus put many miles on it in business trips, but in Maycomb he walked to and from his office four times a day, covering about two miles. He said his only exercise was walking. In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no define purpose on mind, it was correct to believe one’s mind incapable of definite purpose.” (Page 169) Once she thinks of this she Jem and Dill go out when Aunty is sleeping and try to go find Atticus. They check his office, the bank then the jail. He is there reading a newspaper with the light from the light bulb and cord. Since he was okay, the three children were about to leave when; “four dusty cars came in from the Merdian Highway, moving slowly in a line. They went around the square, passes the bank building, and stopped in front of the jail.” (Page 171) Atticus and the men talk, but then Scout runs into the middle, she realizes she didn’t know the people like how she knew the men who came to her house. Atticus asked them to go home but they didn’t. Scout began talking. She talks to Mr. Cunningham the only there she knows. “Hey, Mr. Cunningham. Hows your entailment gettin’ along?” She also talks bout his son Walter. “I go to school with Walter,” I began. “He’s your boy, aint he? Aint he sir? (Page 174 for both) The men stood there with there moths hanging half open just listening to her, even Atticus was like the men standing there listening drown on with his mouth open. After a while she stopped and Mr. Cunningham said lets clear out, they did. The cars were gone, and the Finches and Dill started going home but before Tom called out from jail, so there gone Atticus told him they were off once more. Dill and Scout walked together as Atticus and Jem walked farther ahead. She saw as they passed under a light that Atticus messaged Jem’s hair, which was his way of showing affection. Scout thought Atticus would be mad at them but she was wrong.

This is a picture of a jail like the jail Tom is in before the trial. -Jeannie Peters