#Chapter 28 to kill a mockingbird full

She heads in the direction of the road and sees, in the light of the streetlamp, a man carrying Jem toward her house. Scout feels on the ground for Jem, but finds only a fully dressed man with stubble and smelling of whiskey. She hers a man's weezing and coughing and calls out for her brother who does not answer her. Her assailant was suddenly yanked back and hurled to the ground with a thud. In her attempt to rescue him she is grabbed and squeezed by a mysterious soft body. As Jem attempts to grab his sister, he is wrenched away, leaving only the a loud crunch noise and Jem's screams where he was standing. Something crushes the chicken wire of her costume and violently tears at it. Jem screams for Scout to run, but the costume causes her to lose her balance and tumble down a slope. They hear the mystery footsteps get closer as they approach the old oak tree from the Radley place. The two believe Cecil Jacobs is attempting to frighten them again, but when they call out to him, they only hear their echoes.

On the walk back home, Jem hears noises behind him and Scout. The two decide to walk the short distance home when the crowd clears.

#Chapter 28 to kill a mockingbird full

Feeling ashamed and embarrassed Scout waits in full costume for Jem behind the stage. Merriweather accuses Scout of ruining her carefully planned show. Despite the applause and obvious success of the play, Mrs. Judge Taylor laughs so raucously that he needs one of his pills to prevent a heart attack. She runs onstage just before the end of the show causing the auditorium to break into laughter and applause. Scout falls asleep as the first half of the pageant commences and consequently misses her entrance.

The children go backstage when they are told the pageant is about to begin. Upon arriving at the school, Jem leaves Scout and Cecil who wander around the crowded building, visiting the haunted house in a seventh-grade classroom and buying homemade candy. The strange man who rescued Jem is Boo Radley.Ĭecil Jacobs jumps out and frightens Jem and Scout as they walk through the dark to the school for the Halloween pageant. Sheriff Heck Tate discovers that the assailant is Bob Ewell who was killed by a knife wound to the rib cage. Jem is knocked unconscious and then a strange man carries Jem back home with Scout trailing behind. On the way home from the pageant, Jem and Scout are attacked by an unknown assailant. Every one laughs hysterically, including Judge Taylor who must take a pill in order to prevent his heart from having an attack. Scout falls asleep back stage and misses her entrance, but runs out to the stage as soon as she awakens. Cecil Jacobs scares them on the way over to the school. The night of the Halloween pageant, Scout and Jem walk to the school grounds through the dark expanse of the Radley property.