Month: March 2015

Jem, Dill and scout have learned different tactics in the courtroom that Atticus and Mr Gillmar do to try and get answers out of Tom Robinson and Miss mayella.

Atticus tactic that I read was that he asks the witness, Miss Mayella her personal information and then starts asking her questions about what happened over and over again to see if she would react in a different way or her tone of voice would change so she didn’t say the same answer in the same kind of voice.

Dill starting crying through the trial and Jem and Scout took Dill out of the courtroom for some fresh air. They then ask Dill what was wrong and why he was crying, he then later replied “its not fair how Tom robinson is getting put on trial and being in court for something he didn’t do”, and judging from the answers that Tom robinson has given in the courtroom I kind of agree with Dill because even Tom Robinson owner who he works for says that Tom robinson is a gentleman and wouldn’t do such a thing to a women in his life.

In the description of the courthouse (page 179) we (our class) found many different symbolisms.

To start off with one I’m going to be talking about the dust that floats around the court room floor. When I heard about the dust on the courtroom floor the first thing that I thought was the ashes of the other courthouse that burnt down. The reason behind this is because in another sentence it says “in spite of them” and when you say in spite of them what it means is for example when your trying to clean but there’s a party going on next door, your doing the cleaning in spite of the party so your doing the cleaning while ignoring the party, so when they built the new court house over the old courthouse they completely ignored it and they carried on building it.