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=Chapter 17= Study Guide

=//Plot Summary//=

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The chapter starts by Scout and Jem talking in the court, at the trial of Tom Robinson. The sherif Heck Tate comes as a witness, and tells about what happened on november 21st. He says that Mr. Bob Ewell called him on that night, saying that his daughter Mayella has been beaten up and raped by Tom Robinson, and they went to Ewell's house, checked Mayella, then after making sure that Tom did it by asking Mayella, Heck went to Tom's house and locked him up. Atticus questions him of why didn't Heck took Mayella to the hospital, and also about the injuries of Mayella. Heck says that she had bruises everywhere including her arms, and even on her eye, her right eye. Then the next witness comes up, which is Bob Ewell, father of Mayella Ewell. Mr. Glimer asks Bob about the incident on november 21st. Bob says that on that day, he was returning home, and he could here his daughter's scream from the house.So he ran up, then saw Tom Robinson raping her daughter, and he ran into the house, but Tom ran away, and he couldn't chase Tom because of Mayella's condition. Then, he ran to Heck Tate. Atticus asks questions, the asks Bob if he could write.So then Bob writes his name and shows everyone, then Atticus says Bob is Left handed.(Which means that there is a posibility of Bob Ewell hitting her daughter in her rigt eye.) Then Jem thinks that his father might win this trial.======

=//**Settings**//= The setting of this book is in United States of America, in Alabama, in the Maycomb County during the 1930s. The Scene takes place in the court of Maycomb, where trials were done. Pictures Alabama Map of Maycomb County or..... Photo

=//Character Profile // =

Scout- She is the main protagonist of the novel, daughter of Atticus Finch and sister of Jem Finch. In this chapter she goes to the courtroom with Jem and Dill to watch the trial of Tom Robinson who her fater Atticus defends, when Heck Tate and Bob Ewell confess. Jem- Scout's big brother, and son of Atticus Finch, who thinks maturely and leads scout. He goes to the courtroom with Scout and Dill to watch the trial his father is defending. Atticus Finch- Father of Jem and Scout, the oldest of the Finches, and a honorable lawyer who is to defend Tom Robinson in the trial where Tom Robinson is accused of raping mayella Ewell. Heck Tate- The sheriff of Maycomb, and is a witness of the trial of Tom Robinson that He saw Mayella with injuries. Bob Ewell- Mayella's father, and also a witness of Tom Robinson raping his daughter. =//**Vocabs**//=


 * **Word** || **Meaning** ||
 * Truant || failure to attend (especially school) ||
 * Congenital || Diseases or deformities dating from birth/Present since birth ||
 * Gullet || The throat or esophagus; the cytop harynx of a ciliate, through which food is ingested ||
 * Corroborating || establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" ||
 * Benignly || A medical term in medical discourse to describe a mild and non-progressive sickness. ||
 * Dictum || An opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding ||
 * Ambidextrous || equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" ||
 * Amiably || friendly; in an amicable manner; characterized by an absence of antagonism, especially in commonly difficult situations ||
 * Complacently || In a self-satisfied manner ||
 * Pantomime || act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only ||
 * Acrimonious || intense feeling of dislike ||
 * Corrugated || fold into ridges ||
 * Gleaner || someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters ||
 * Fluctuations || cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern ||
 * Tenet || one of the principles or beliefs that a theory or larger set of beliefs is base on ||

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