off. She is quite scared now. She tries to take a giant step but falls instead. She screams out for help Scout hears kicking sounds as well as Jem screaming. Scout falls finds into a mans arms. She is tightly held by his arms, and the man tries to squeeze the breath out of her. Then he is pushed backwards. Scout hears a man breathing heavily. She looks at the body and gets the smell of whisky from him. Then she walks off towards her home. The doctor is called, and so is the sheriff. Scout is helped out of the costume and the doctor checks her. Jem is hurt. Mr. Tate has looked at the grounds of the incident and reveals that Bob Ewell had been lying on the floor with a kitchen knife stuck into him and is dead. This is a very eventful chapter. Scout messes up her role and is embarrassed.Ewells evil intentions are exposed in this chapter. Here is a man who would go to anything to get even with Atticus.Pages 267 276Atticus is very upset by the recent events. You can tell in this chapter, that Atticus values his childrens life more then his.They think that it had been the chicken wire loop that had saved Scouts life. Scout then points out that somebody else had also been at the scene. Scout realizes that the man had been Boo Radley. As Scout relates the events, Heck Tate and Atticus realize that Bob Ewell actually meant to hurt the children seriously. The person to save the situation was Arthur Radley. Scout, who had the wish of wanting to see him at least once has actually had her life saved by this same man. Scout is thrilled that her lifetime ambition of seeing Boo on her front porch has ultimately been fulfilled. Atticus perceives that Jem had probably killed Ewell in self-defense, but the sheriff insists that he had not killed him. Atticus feels that the sheriff is trying to save Jem But Heck Tate insists that a small boy like Jem couldnt possibly have handled such a big knife, and that Ewell had probably fallen on the knife and killed...
