To Kill a Mockingbird #3 summary

Page 148-227, chapter 14-20

                        Tom Robinson is the one who needs to be considered to the jail because he rapes a white woman and he is a coloured man. Atticus Finch is the defender of Tom Robinson, and during this chapter Tom’s trial is being held, Atticus is busy going to his office and to the court. So Jem and Scout as Atticus’s kids got teased by everybody, just because his father is the coloured-folk defender. During the night when Jem was about to go to her bed, she found Dill hiding under her bed. Dill ran away from his house because his mother and his new father didn’t pay any attention to him. So when Atticus knows, he let Dill sleep with Jem and find Dill more food to eat.

                        As Tom’s trial is nearing and Tom is to move to Maycomb jail, Atticus has been busy about preparing for the trial. One day Jem, Scout and Dill went to Atticus’s office and they were hiding and they see Atticus in front of the Maycomb jail with folks. They were curious about what they are doing out there so they were trying to see what was happening. Then finally Atticus finds out the the kids were looking at him and his folks, Atticus told Jem to take everybody home but jem refuses. After that they started to meet more people, Scout talked to her friend’s father and he were some kind of ashamed by her so Atticus took the kids home.

                       When time for the trial comes Atticus was in the court and also Jem and Scout follows Calpurnia to the court to watch him and Tom Robinson. Everybody was there in the court room. When the witnesses need to speak, some was saying that Tom is the one who was raping the girl but some says he didn’t do it. Tom Robinson’s crime on that night was found by Mr. Ewell, it was at night and he saw Tom was raping his daughter. Mr. Ewell was saying that Tom was with her daughter last night. Then again when another witness comes, she said that the girl with Tom was her, she called Tom to help her and then Tom took advantage of that, and she also told Tom to kiss her. So right now Tom is almost flawless, even the girl who was always with Tom said that she has never has trouble with Tom.

                        The trial is still being held. Jem and Scout sneaks off the room once and then when they went back to the room, Atticus was closing the trial, he concluded that maybe it was other guy that was raping the girl but he was ashamed and also the girl. So they were saying that they guy was Tom just because she was ashamed.