More Questions! - Chapters 15 to 17

I will now analyze the chapters mentioned above. Hope you enjoy them!

Chapter 15

1. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What do you think of Atticus' comment about it?

It's a group that discriminates almost everything: religious people, black people, etc. Atticus says they have no importance and we shouldn't care about them. I agree with his posture, because I don't think "KKK" would attack a small town in Alabama; if they did, we couldn't do anything to prevent it, so we shouldn't care really.

2. How does Jem react when Atticus tells him to go home, and why?

He doesn't obbey his father, because he knows he is in danger. He won't let his father alone.

3. What persuades the lynching-party to give up their attempt on Tom's life?

Probably, the innocence of Scout. When she arrived and realized she just knew one person of the group, he said 'hello' and told him to salute his child when he saw him. 

Chapter 16

4. What sort of person is Dolphus Raymond and what is your opinion of him?

He is a white man that lives with black people, because he thinks whites are hypocrites. My opinion of him is that he is a person that doesn't have trouble saying what he thinks, something very important and strange in those days.

5. How does Reverend Sykes help the children see and hear the trial? Is he correct in doing so?

He leads them to where black men are, so they can see the trial from a part where everyone loves Atticus. I think this is very important for the children, so it was great that someone helped them to watch the trial. Almost all the city was there, so they had the right to go.

Chapter 17

6. Choose three quotes from chapter 17. Explain the context of each, the characters involved, and their relevance for the story, themes and overall message of the novel.

"'Are you the father of Mayella Ewell?' was the next question.
'Well, if I ain't I can't do nothing about it now, her ma's dead,' was the answer"
In the quote, they were in the trial of Tom Robinson and the witness was Bob Ewell. We can appreciate how Ewell is a man that isn't close to his family, and he doesn't really care about them. He is a bad person, and shouldn't be the responsible for his children. He is an important character in the end of the novel, so this part is quite crucial to start understanding how that man is, and what he might be able to do.

"Mr Gilmer and Atticus exchanged glances. Atticus was sitting down again, his fist rested on his cheek and we could not see his face"
Here we were still in the trial, and we can observe how was the tone of it. Atticus, from the very beginning of the case, knew he would lose. But he still fighted for what he thought the best. Never a black man had won a trial against a white one, but maybe this could be the chance. This is a part of the novel where we can see how do the moral values of Atticus made him act the good way, without caring if the whole city was against him. 

"Jem seemed to be having a quiet fit. He was pounding the balcony rail softly, and once he whispered, 'We've got him.'"
Here we can see, almost finishing the trial, that Jem was quite sure they'll win. The arguments, the questions, everything was from their side. His innocence is what excels in here. He doesn't know how bad people can be. He probably didn't know that negroes could never win a trial; that they weren't the same as whites. When he realizes what happens, they have killed another mockingbird...