Zusammenfassung der Ressource
To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapters 16-21
- Toms trial begins, the whole town is in the courthouse.
- The children sit in the black balcony
with the Reverend Sykes
- It became clear through the testimonies
that Mayella and Bob Ewell were lying.
- Mayella had actually led Tom on, her father Mr
Ewell had found out and beaten her.
- Taking a break from the trial, Scout
and Dill talk with Mr Raymond outside
the courthouse.
- Mr Raymond lives happily with a black woman,
yet he pretends that his is permanently drunk in
order to escape the pressure from townspeople
who would not believe he chooses to live that way.
- Despite the overwhelming evidence that
Tom was innocent, the all-white jury
convicts him.
- All the blacks in the balcony stood as
respect for Atticus as he left the courtroom.