Assignment 3.07

For this assignment I decided to read the final chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this chapter, we see Scout has a role in a play being put on by the town where she ends up falling asleep and going on stage late. After the play, Jem and Scout are on their way home in the dark where they get attacked and we see Scout chase a man carrying an unconcious Jem with a broken arm back home after the attack. We later find out it was Bob Ewell who attempted to kill them and Arthur Radley brought Jem back home. An argument ensues as Atticus believes Jem killed Bob when they were fighting but the sheriff says he fell on his own knife and Jem should not have to undergo a trial for that. Atticus becomes upset as he thinks Jem should be honest and face responsibility for his actions. At the end we see Scout take Arthur back home after at long last seeing him face to face for the first, and last, time. I think it was a very good ending and I enjoyed the sort of resolution we get with the Bob Ewell. However, I feel the book could have gone on a bit longer at least to where Jem woke up again and we could have gotten a definite answer to how Bob Ewell died, as I believe that he was not killled by Jem or himself but by Arthur Radley. All in all, it was a good ending. I think the author's intent was to entertain us and give us a resolution to at last give a definitive end to the Tom Robinson case, as Bob Ewell vowed to get Atticus after the case. She also at last revealed Arthur Radley to Scout. In the passage I observed that she used a chronological organizational pattern. She begins with Scout's play and goes in order until she takes Arthur back home.