To Kill a Mockingbird Notes

TKAM Chapter 17 Notes

-Heck Tate-first to testify

-Mr. Gilmer-solicitor from Abbottsville, balding, smooth-faced man, 40-60 years old

-crime happened night of November 21st

-Bob Ewell came to Heck Tate

-girl (Ewell's daughter) lying on the floor, beaten up, 

-did not call a doctor

-beaten around head, bruises on arms, black eye, finger marks on her gullet

-next to testify-Robert E. Lee Ewell

-no economic fluctuations changed their status

-workers couldn't keep children in school, free from congenital defects worms and diseases

-lived behind town garbage dump

-See description of Ewell house on page 227-228

-no one sure how many Ewell children there are

-Scout had never heard Atticus raise his voice except to a deaf witness

-Mr. Ewell's description of night-Novemeber 21st, coming in with wood when he heard Mayella screaming, just before sundown with Tom Robinson on Mayella

-Rev. Sykes wants Scout, Jem and Dill to go home 

-crowd is sulky, tense, murmuring

-request that courtroom cleared of spectators or women and children has been momentarily denied

-page 233-235 further description of case

-Heck and Bob both say different eye is bruised

-ask if Bob can read and write

-Bob is left handed, Mayella beat up on right side of body