Key Incident

Question 1

Paragraph 1?

Answer 1

Describe

• ‘This was the stillness before a thunderstorm’
• ‘Run Scout! Run! Run!’
• ‘from somewhere nearby came scuffling, kicking sounds’
• ‘there came a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed’

Question 2

Para 2?

Answer 2

• ‘There was a dull crunching sound and Jem screamed’
• ‘His stomach was soft but his arms were like steel’
• ‘he slowly squeezed the breath out of me’

Question 3

Para 3?

Answer 3

Why Ewell attacks

• ‘when he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow’
• ‘why don’t you tell the truth, child? Didn’t Bob Ewell beat you up?’
• ‘she was white and she tempted a negro. She did something that in our society was unspeakable; she kissed a black man. Not an uncle but a strong young negro man.’

Question 4

Para 4?

Answer 4

BOO RADLEY

• ATTICUS though Jem killed Bob
• ‘it’s a sin and I’m about to have it on my head. I’m still the sheriff of Maycomb County and I say Bob Ewell fell on his knife.’
• ‘like shoot in’ a mockingbird’