In Chapter 24, Aunt Alexandra invites over the women from her missionary circle to have tea with her. Scout, bored because Jem and Dill have gone to swim, joins her. Scout actually wears a dress and helps Calpurnia bring in the tea.

Chapter 25: On their way to Helen Robinson’s place, Calpurnia and Atticus find Dill and Jem by the side of the road on their way from Barker’s Eddy where they had been swimming. They stayed inside a long time, and Atticus came out alone. …

Chapter 24 is an effective chapter in Harper Lee’s portrayal of the hypocrisy present in the society of Maycomb: Calpurnia, who is good enough to cook for the Finch family is not allowed to make the teacakes for the ladies of the church. Scout is made to wear a dress and act like a lady before Mrs.

Bob Ewell got a job and lost it and he blames Atticus for losing it. (2)Then someone (Bob Ewell) tried to break into judge Taylor’s home on a Sunday night, and (3) Helen Robinson, Tom’s widow, was hired by Link Deas and the Ewells won’t let her use the public road.

Summary: Chapter 25 September has begun and Jem and Scout are on the back porch when Scout notices a roly-poly bug. Jem had convinced Atticus to let them accompany him to Helen Robinson’s house, where they saw her collapse even before Atticus could say that her husband, Tom, was dead.

Summary: Chapter 27 By the middle of October, Bob Ewell gets a job with the WPA, one of the Depression job programs, and loses it a few days later. He blames Atticus for “getting” his job. Deas sees Ewell and threatens to have him arrested if he doesn’t leave Helen alone; he gives her no further trouble.

At the end of chapter 27, Scout mentions that Jem is going to walk her to Maycomb’s Halloween festival at the school and says, “Thus began our longest journey together” (257). Her statement foreshadows that something dramatic will take place on their walk to or from the Halloween festival.

In the beginning of chapter 27 in To Kill a Mockingbird, we learn that things in Maycomb County have settled down a little since school began again. Scout tells us only three unusual events have happened by the middle of October. She says these things ‘did not directly concern us – the Finches – but in a way they did.

The story serves several purposes. It is the primary reason why Maycomb’s next Halloween was scaled down and the pageant was being held at the school, giving Jem and Scout their excuse to walk to and from the school that night. Click to see full answer.

The three things that Scout mentioned during Chapter 27 included:

• Helen Robinson being stalked and harrassed by Bob Ewell.
• Judge Taylor discovering a prowler on his back porch, where “A shadow on the corner of the house caught his eye.” It was probably Bob Ewell again, seeking revenge against the judge.

Scout Finch The narrator and protagonist of the story. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch lives with her father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia, in Maycomb. Scout eventually develops a more grown-up perspective that enables her to appreciate human goodness without ignoring human evil.

What happened to Judge Taylor? Judge Taylor’s house was broken into by an intruder thought to be Bob Ewell, and the judge was found with a shotgun across his lap.

Summary: Chapter 22 That night, Jem cries, railing against the injustice of the verdict. The next day, Maycomb’s black population delivers an avalanche of food to the Finch household. Outside, Miss Stephanie Crawford is gossiping with Mr. Avery and Miss Maudie, and she tries to question Jem and Scout about the trial.

Although Tom is spared from being lynched, he is killed with excessive violence during an attempted escape from prison, being shot seventeen times.

Seventeen shots means they wanted to kill Tom Robinson rather than wound him and put him back in jail, which would have been a perfectly acceptable way to stop a prison break.

Tom Robinson is like a symbolic mockingbird because of his innocence; he has not harmed anyone and is an admirable character who offers help to others. Because Tom is not guilty, it makes it “sinful” to harm him.