WALTER
CUNNINGHAM SR. When Atticus provides Mr. Cunningham with
legal advice concerning his entailment, Cunningham tells his attorney that he doesn't
know when he will be able to pay. Atticus tells him to make it "the least of your
worries." He explains to Scout that the Cunninghams are a different "breed of men." But
Atticus knows he will be paid.
"Not in money," Atticus said, "but before the
year's out, I'll have been paid. You
watch."
MRS.
DUBOSE. During her final days, Mrs. Dubose successfully
rids herself of her morphine addiction, a goal that caused her great pain but the
ultimate satisfaction of dying "beholden to nothing and nobody." Atticus tells Jem
that
"... I
wanted you to see what real courage is... It's when you know you're licked before you
begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter
what."
DOLPHUS
RAYMOND. While Scout and Dill take a break from the trial, Mr. Raymond
explains why Dill won't cry as frequently when he becomes grown. When Scout asks, "Cry
about what?", Mr. Raymond emotionally tells her.
"Cry about the simple hell people give other
people--without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks,
without even stopping to think that they're people,
too."
ATTICUS'
TRIAL SUMMATION. Atticus' memorable summation falls on the deaf ears of
the jury, but in it he tries to explain the difference between the Ewells and the
innocent, black defendant, Tom Robinson.
"And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who
had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word
against two white
people's..."
AUNT
ALEXANDRA & MISS MAUDIE. Following
Atticus' announcement that Tom has been killed, Maudie and Alexandra put on their best
faces and return to serving refreshments for the missionary circle. Scout is highly
impressed with their demeanor.
After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time
like this, so could l.
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