Our second novel: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Our second novel: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

Saturday, 6 September 2008

TKAM - Chapters 15-16



1- Tom Robinson is in jail because he was acussed of raping a white woman. To the crowd of friends in front of his house, Atticus says, "Link, that boy might go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told... And you know what the truth is." We readers, however, do not know what the truth is, but we might speculate. What do you think the truth might be?

2- Chapter 16 gives a picture of the customs and social attitudes of a small Southern town in the late 1930's. What particularly caught your attention?