I think this is important to the story because before this, Scout and Jem thought their father was just…Atticus, and didn’t do anything else. But they learnt a bit about his past from that, and that he had a nickname of ‘One-Shot Finch’. And makes them believe he isn’t as boring as they thought before.
Picture B is after Tom’s death, near the end of the novel. The incident involves Scout, Mrs Merriweather, and Jem and in the following incident involves Atticus, Mr Ewell, Heck Tate, Boo Radley, Aunt Alexandra and Dr Reynolds.
After trouble at the last Halloween, Aunt Alexandra’s missionary put on a pageant at the high school, which includes a play about the produce that Maycomb County produces. Scout is involved in this, dressed up as a ham. It is after this event when Scout and Jem are walking back across the schoolyard that Mr Ewell attacks them. But before this, Mrs Merriweather becomes very angry with Scout because she says that Scout ruined the play by falling asleep when she was meant to come in, and made everyone laugh! I think this is important to the story as a whole because it is at the end of the book, but adds a high tension point at the end, and we see when Mr Ewell finally carries out his threat to ‘get Atticus if it’s the last thing he does’, but because he was a coward he in fact went for Jem and Scout, breaking Jems arm in the process.
Picture C is from the courthouse, and this involves Atticus, Judge Taylor, Mr Ewell and the spectators and jury.
This scene is about halfway through, and is what the whole of the previous pages have been building up for. This is the scene in which the trial of Tom Robinson takes place. He is a black man that is being tried for rape, which is an offence which if found guilty, results in the capital punishment. At the particular point that the picture shows, Atticus is questioning Mr Ewell, and he is making the questions hard on him. Atticus is revealing in his way that it wasn’t in fact Tom that assaulted Mayella, but the other way around, and Mr Ewell was embarrassed that his daughter had touched a black man, and beat her, then rang the Sheriff to tell him that Tom had raped her and beat her around.
I think this adds to the novel because this is where Atticus removes Ewells last shred of dignity, and where Ewell decides he is going to get revenge for that.
Picture D, I believe is just before the trial, about halfway through. The incident involves Atticus, Scout, Jem and Dill, and also a group of about 10 men.
This occurs at the jailhouse and the men have come to get Tom. Atticus left, and went to sit outside and protect Tom, but when Jem realizes what is going on, he goes to the jailhouse with Scout and Dill tagging along. The men start to threaten Atticus and Scout, who is hiding with Jem and Dill, runs to Atticus. He tells Jem to take her home, but he refuses. Scout notices one man that she knows, and starts to talk to him about entailments. The man then talks briefly to Scout and leaves.
I think this relates to the story because this may have had an impact on the jury. Atticus was chosen to represent Tom because he could ‘keep a jury out for hours’ with a case of a black man, who would normally be guilty within a matter of minutes. But Walter Cunningham, the man Scout spoke to, had relations on the jury, and they may have been against a guilty verdict.
Picture E, comes from about a third of the way through the novel. It involves most of the street but the picture shows Scout and Boo Radley.
In this part, there is a fire at Miss Maudies house. Atticus wakes Jem and Scout up and tells them they have to go outside. Whilst they are stood, watching the fire, Scout starts to get cold, dancing around to try and stop her feet becoming numb and having Jem’s arm wrapped around her as well. At dawn when they all return home, Atticus asks Scout where she had got the blanket from that was draped across her shoulders. She hadn’t even noticed it at this point and Atticus says ‘someday maybe Scout can thank him for covering her up’ to which Scout says ‘Thank who’ and her father answers ‘Boo Radley’.
I think this is important to the story because it proves to Scout that Boo isn’t the horrible, violent person she thought he was, and he wouldn’t hurt her.
Picture F is from Scouts classroom, and involves Scout, her teacher Miss Fisher and her classmates. It happens quite early in the novel.
Scout has been able to read since she can remember because her father taught her. At school, they weren’t expected to know how to read or write, and when Scout is caught writing a letter to Dill, Miss Fisher calls her up to the front of the class and canes her, and sends her to the corner. Scout also gets into trouble for telling Miss Fisher why Walter Cunningham hasn’t got any lunch or money for lunch.
I think this relates back to the story because it makes Scout angry, that her father has done something to her that got her into trouble, and also develops her hatred of school from her very first morning.
