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Analysis Of 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
Shannon Wester
May 1, 2005
Mrs. Takehara
To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mocking Bird

In my diorama I depicted the scene of Jem walking Scout home from the Halloween pageant, in full ham-suit, when they are attacked in the woods by Bob Ewell. He first attacks Jem, and then Scout, until someone pulls him off of her, and Scout assumes it was Jem. The man who saved Scout and Jem was Boo Radley, the Finch's reclusive neighbor. He carries an unconscious Jem and scout back to their house, where Aunt Alexandra calls the doctor. Scout feared that Jem was dead, but he was only unconscious with a broken arm. When they find that Ewell was dead, Atticus tries vehemently to tell the sheriff that Jem killed him out of self-defense, but the Sheriff

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