Scout Saves The Day

In last nights reading Scout basically saves her dad and Tom Robinson's lives.

The night before the trial for Tom Robinson Atticus goes downtown and tells everyone not to stay up for him because he won't be back until they are all asleep. Jem decides that he wants to go downtown also to see what Atticus is up to. Scout hears him and convinces him that she is going with him. They go get Dill and head to town.

When they get there that see that Atticus is setting outside of the jailhouse reading the newspaper. They began to leave and then see a group of cars stop in front of the jailhouse and a bunch of men get out. They move to a stop where they can see better.

Scout breaks free of Jem's clutch from when he stopped her from running to Atticus earlier. She runs through the mob to Atticus and feels a bit foolish for jumping in the middle of a crowd of men she doesn't know.

Atticus tells Jem to go home and take Dill and Scout with him, but he refuses. While this is all going on Scout tries to recall who the men are. She then recognizes one of them to be Mr. Walter Cunningham. As proper manner taught her, she began to talk to Mr. Cunningham. She was told to always talk about stuff that interest the person she is talking to because it is not polite to talk of stuff that interest you and not the person you are talking to. So, she tell Mr. Cunningham that she goes to school with his son and that he once came home with them to eat dinner. She tells him to tell Walter, Mr. Cunningham's son, that she says hi.

Scout was not getting any response, so she hit another subject. She began to talk about his entailment's and how they are bad and all, but that her dad said not to worry and that they could work things out.

No one talked and Scout began to think what she had done wrong, until Mr. Cunningham grab her shoulders and said that he would tell Walter that she said hi. Then the mob of Cunningham's left and went home.

Even though Scout was just a child, she saved the day, and was very brave jumping into the mob. I really do not think that Scout intended to get the guys to leave, I think she was just doing what she was brought up being told to do when she saw someone she knew. I think it is amazing how a kid can perform a heroic act without even knowing it.