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Summary: Chapter 23
Bob Ewell’s threats are worrisometo everyone except Atticus. Atticus tells Jem and Scout that becausehe made Ewell look like a fool, Ewell needed to get revenge. Nowthat Ewell has gotten that vengefulness out of his system, Atticusexpects no more trouble. Aunt Alexandra and the children remainworried. Meanwhile, Tom Robinson has been sent to another prisonseventy miles away while his appeal winds through the court system.Atticus feels that his client has a good chance of being pardoned.When Scout asks what will happen if Tom loses, Atticus replies thatTom will go to the electric chair, as rape is a capital offensein Alabama.
Jem and Atticus discuss the justice of executing men forrape. The subject then turns to jury trials and to how all twelvemen could have convicted Tom. Atticus tells Jem that in an Alabamacourt of law, a white man’s word always beats a black man’s, andthat they were lucky to have the jury out so long. Lounge lizard session. In fact, oneman on the jury wanted to acquit—amazingly, it was one of the Cunninghams. Upon hearingthis revelation, Scout announces that she wants to invite young WalterCunningham to dinner, but Aunt Alexandra expressly forbids it, tellingher that the Finches do not associate with trash.
Scout grows furious, and Jem hastily takes her out ofthe room. In his bedroom, Jem reveals his minimal growth of chesthair and tells Scout that he is going to try out for the footballteam in the fall. They discuss the class system—why their aunt despisesthe Cunninghams, why the Cunninghams look down on the Ewells, who hateblack people, and other such matters. After being unable to figureout why people go out of their way to despise each other, Jem suggestsBoo Radley does not come out of his house because he does not wantto leave it.
Summary: Chapter 24
One day in August, Aunt Alexandra invites hermissionary circle to tea. Scout, wearing a dress, helps Calpurniabring in the tea, and Alexandra invites Scout to stay with the ladies.Scout listens to the missionary circle first discuss the plightof the poor Mrunas, a benighted African tribe being converted toChristianity, and then talk about how their own black servants havebehaved badly ever since Tom Robinson’s trial. Miss Maudie shutsup their prattle with icy remarks. Suddenly, Atticus appears and callsAlexandra to the kitchen. There he tells her, Scout, Calpurnia,and Miss Maudie that Tom Robinson attempted to escape and was shotseventeen times. He takes Calpurnia with him to tell the Robinsonfamily of Tom’s death. Alexandra asks Miss Maudie how the town canallow Atticus to wreck himself in pursuit of justice. Maudie repliesthat the town trusts him to do right. They return with Scout tothe missionary circle, managing to act as if nothing is wrong.
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Summary: Chapter 25
September has begun and Jem and Scout are on the backporch when Scout notices a roly-poly bug. She is about to mash itwith her hand when Jem tells her not to. She dutifully places thebug outside. When she asks Jem why she shouldn’t have mashed it,he replies that the bug didn’t do anything to harm her. Scout observesthat it is Jem, not she, who is becoming more and more like a girl.Her thoughts turn to Dill, and she remembers him telling her thathe and Jem ran into Atticus as they started home from swimming duringthe last two days of August. Jem had convinced Atticus to let themaccompany him to Helen Robinson’s house, where they saw her collapse evenbefore Atticus could say that her husband, Tom, was dead. Meanwhile,the news occupies Maycomb’s attention for about two days, and everyoneagrees that it is typical for a black man to do something irrationallike try to escape. Mr. Underwood writes a long editorial condemningTom’s death as the murder of an innocent man. The only other significantreaction comes when Bob Ewell is overheard saying that Tom’s deathmakes “one down and about two more to go.” Summer ends and Dillleaves.
Analysis: Chapters 23–25
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When he reassures his family that Bob Ewell does not reallyintend to harm him, Atticus advises Jem to stand in Bob Ewell’sshoes, echoing the advice that he gives Scout earlier in the noveland evoking one of the most important moral themes in the book.Here, however, Atticus’s attempt to understand another human fallsshort: he makes an honest mistake in his analysis by failing tounderstand the depth of Ewell’s anger toward him. Aunt Alexandrais more insightful, maintaining that a man like Ewell will do anythingto get revenge. Although her comments seem typical of her tendencyto stereotype “those people” who are different from the Finches,her analysis of Ewell proves correct. For all her faults, Aunt Alexandra gains,by way of her stereotypes, a basically reliable understanding ofthe people of Maycomb.