Summary of to kill a mockingbird chapters 24 and 25

chapter 24, Aunt Alexandra invites over the women from her missionary circle to have tea with her. Scout, bored because Jem and Dill have gone to swim, joins her. Scout actually wears a dress and helps Calpurnia bring in the tea. The women gossip for a time, talking in particular about Mayella Ewell and how their black servants have been acting angry since the trial. They even go so far as to allude to Atticus in their small talk although, for once, Alexandra sticks up for him. The entire tone of their conversation amongst the women is petty and gossipy.

   Atticus enters the home, and asks Alexandra to come into the kitchen. He tells her, Scout, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia that Tom Robinson tried to escape from prison and, as a result, was shot seventeen times. Atticus asks Calpurnia to come with him to break the news to Tom's wife.

   After he leaves, Alexandra sits for a time with Scout and Miss Maudie in the kitchen. Alexandra is angry that so much responsibility in the town falls on Atticus' shoulders. However, Miss Maudie reassures her by saying that Maycomb trusts Atticus to always do the right thing. And, that said, they all go back out to the tea party.

   In chapter 25, it has now become September. Sitting on the porch, Scout almost squashes a roly-poly. Jem stops her at the last minute, telling her to leave it alone because the bug has never done her any harm. Clearly, this is an echo of Atticus's earlier comment about not harming a mockingbird for the same reason. This is surely a sign of Jem's increasing maturity, though Scout writes it off as him being too "girly."

   Scout and Jem begin talking about Dill and, after one thing leads another, Jem tells how on the night Atticus went to tell Tom Robinson's wife what had happened, Jem had convinced him to be allowed to accompany him. Jem recounts what he saw and how Helen Robinson seemed to know what was coming before Atticus even told her. She fainted when she saw him coming.

the characters especially dave, are frustrated with the inequalities that exist within their life. we  

infer that if he doesn't escape, then he will work on the fields for the rest of his life. an example  

within the text is the conversation between mrs. saunder and dave. mrs. saunder say's "lawd,  

chill, whut's wrong wid yuh? ". here we seen how she comes for dave in an emotional way.

in at least one hundred words, explain how dave’s search for adulthood in “the man who  

was almost a man” reflects the african-american desire to escape the poverty of the south

at the time the story was written.

dave's desire to escape slavery greatly reflects the african-american desire to  

escape oppression and poverty. dave is struggling to declare his identity with the occurence of  

the rural south in his place. throughout the  

story

dave is very irritated because of the way he is  

being treated by whites and how he basically has no freedom. his search for adulthood is exactly

how most african-americans felt and acted during that time. dave also gets so fed up that he  

wants to actually fight back which is how all the other african-americans felt too. desperation is

a major theme in the story as dave is desperate to experience his adulthood, and african-

americans are desperate to escape poverty.

william zanzinger killed poor hattie carroll

with a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger

at a baltimore hotel society gath'rin'

based on these first lines from the song "the lonesome death of hattie carroll," what can

the audience infer about zanzinger?

he is a wealthy man.

the vietnam war was the first one watched by americans on television. how did this  

viewing of the war in their living rooms most clearly affected modern literature in which of  

the following ways? select all that apply.

the literature focused on the realities of war.

since people saw the war all the time, the literature focused on happy things.

it was written with a purpose to actually end the war.