Chapter 23 questions To Kill a Mockingbird

1.)What do you think of Atticus's reaction to Bob Ewell's challenge? Should he have ignored Bob, retaliated or done something else?
 
 I think he handled it in the best way possible. I think if he had done anything else he would have gotten into a physical fight.


2.)What is “circumstantial evidence”? What has it got to do with Tom's conviction?
 
 

Circumstantial evidence is evidence that doesn’t absolutely prove guilt. Tom’s conviction

was based completely on circumstantial evidence.

3.)What does Atticus tell Scout about why the jury took so long to convict Tom?  
 

He tells her that a Cunningham was on the jury and didn’t want to convict. The jury

actually had to think about the conviction before they did it.

4.)Why does Aunt Alexandra accept that the Cunninghams may be good but are not “our kind of folks”? Do you think that people should mix only with others of the same social class? Are class-divisions good or bad for societies?
 
 

She tells Scout that they are not people that the Finch family should associate with because they are lower class. I think it is a good and bad thing because you could relate more with someone in the same class as you. Class-division is bad because they think in only one sense and that there way is the right way and wont look and see a situation in a different persons prospective. 

5.)At the end of this chapter, Jem forms a new theory about why Boo Radley has never left his house in years. What is this? How likely is it to be true, in your opinion? 

He says he doesn’t leave the house because he chooses not to. This is likely to be true

because Boo has found a place in which he is comfortable.