Chapter 28 by: Stacey Pilla + Melanie Walsh -Mager

Plot Summary:
In Chapter 28, Jem and Scout are walking to the high school auditorium walking past the Radley’s house and the Big Oak tree. While they were walking they were talking about the Haints, Hot streams, incantations, and secret signs. They were almost at the school when Cecil jumped out of the darkness and scared both of them. When they finally make it to the auditorium Jem gives Scout money and goes off with his friends. The pageant has then started and when it is time for Scout to come out she is not there. She had missed her que because she fell asleep waiting. After everyone leaves the two also leave, Scout forgets her shoes but they just keep walking. Jem think he hears something, they think it is Cecil again trying to scare them but instead it is an unknown person attacking both of them. The figure attacks Jem and breaks his arm and tried to strangle Scout but Scout had thought that then Jem had stood up and pulled the stranger off of her. When it is done the shadow runs underneath the Oak tree to catch its breath. Jem was now where to be heard and it was all Scout now. On 352 Scout sees and man and Atticus bring in Jem to the house. Aunt Alexandra calls the doctor, Dr. Reynolds, and Atticus tells Mr. Heck Tate to go and see if the man who did this is still out there. Later Heck Tate , Atticus, Scout, the man who brought Jem, and Aunt Alexandra were talking about how the man who attacked the kids was Bob Ewell and they him dead will the knife in his ribs under the Oak tree.

Major Changes and Development:
Bob Ewell was killed. Aunt Alexandra only wants to comfort Scout so she gives her her overalls and doesn’t care like she has in the past. The relationship between Jem and Scout has grown closer and matured because they walked together to the pageant and had a normal conversation.

Significant Quotations:
1. Scout asking repetitively to different people:
“Is Jem dead?”(Lee 353, 354, 355)
This shows how much she cares about him and how much their relationship has grown.
2. Jem and Scout are walking home when Jen hears something:
“I hear it when we’re walkin’ along, but when we stop I don’t hear it.”
This quote shows that Jem does hear something and is trying to figure it out to protect Scout ad himself.

Literary Elements:
Foreshadowing: At the end Mr. Heck Tate is telling Atticus that Bob Ewell was found with a kitchen knife under his ribs. There has to be something more about this and what happened and who did it.

Vocabulary:
Irascible (Lee342): easily provoked to anger.

Critical Questions:
1. What’s the significance of there being no moo n that night and Jem forgetting the flashlight?
2. How do you think the knife ended up in Mr. Bob Ewell?
3. What do you think outcome of Jem’s condition is going to be? Is there any connection to his injuries and the first part of the book?