Scout Is Speaker 1 and Atticus Is Speaker

Josh Caplan

3. In this quote, Scout is speaker 1 and Atticus is speaker 2. In this moment they are going in to hear the result of the case. Scout, who wants Tom to be found innocent, is concerned about the speed of the decision. Atticus who has much more experience in court because he is a lawyer saws it’s quite the contrary. Usually it only takes minutes for the jury to find a black man guilty. Atticus believes there must have been one person who actually began to hear the side of Tom Robinson after starting out with radically racist views.

4. In this scene Atticus is the speaker. He is talking about how with age has come a loss in memory for him. They are all worried that Atticus’ memory could hurt him in the trial but Atticus insists once he gets to the trial that he will be fine and his memory will come back to him. Atticus proves to be right when is memory begins to function as it should during the case.

7. Atticus is speaking in this passage. He is talking to his kids about the fact that many people don’t allow a black man to join them at the dinner table. Their family’s views show a rare openness to reform surrounding race. The kids must also learn to accept him as well and treat him like any white man or woman at the dinner table.

9.  Scout is narrating this passage. In this passage Scout and Jem go back to the fence near Boo Radley’s house where Jem’s shorts were ripped previously. To their surprise, the ripped pair of shorts had been sewn up and placed back where Jem left them. The sewing was terrific, scout says. She describes that no woman could have possibly sewn up the shorts; the shorts were too “crooked.” Which leads the reader to realize Boo Radley had done the generous act.  

12.  In this scene, Mayella Ewell is speaking within a Tom Robinson narration. Tom Robinson is on the stand and he is going through the events leading up to them presumed attack on Mayella Ewell from his perspective. In this moment he describes Mayella saying that she saved up money for the kids to go into town and get ice cream. Tom Robinson discusses the loneliness of Mayella and the lack of joy in her words. Which is ironic because it creates a bit of sympathy for Mayella but also creates suspicion as to why she is so isolated.

2. Atticus is talking to his kids in this scene. He is describing how he fought so hard for Tom Robinson even though he knew it was over before it started. Atticus has been a huge advocate to his kids about the lack of necessity for lots of guns and violence. Atticus wants to make it clear the example he is trying to set and what having courage and righteousness means to him. That hope that Atticus has is what drives him and the hope for justice should drive his kids as well. It is evident that this hope for new perspective from the greater public is shown at, for example, their family’s dinner table.