Friday 21 June 2013

Chapter 17 - Tension at the Trial

During Chapter 17, the trial raleting to allegations towards Tom Robinson is fineally taken to court. Many things a subtly revealed to the reader and to Scout during the trial.

  • Seating arrangements
  • The order in which people enter the Court-Room
  • The revelatio if evidence from the witness (Who found the girl)
  • The responses from Atticus to support his case (Defending Tom Robinson)

All these things are revealed whilst Harper Lee uses techniques of tension building. Moving into about the third or fourth page of this chapter, despite all the information that Mr. Tate (Witness) accedently reveals whilst still struggling to answer some of the simplest of Atticus' questions relating to the girls' injuries, Scout still seems to think that "So far, Things were utterly dull" (Page 175), which shows that, despite her intrigue in the events relating to Tom Robinson, she still has very little knowledge about the consequences, what things have actually been stated, and the reasoning behind both lawyers questions.

Building tension in the chapter, starts right at the begining. On page 172 - 173 there are many quick-fire-court-questions aimed at Mr. Tate.
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2 comments:

  1. Sopha21 June 2013 at 06:30

    I like this post because of how you picked up on the way that Scout does not completely understand, which is fair due to her age and lack of knowledge on the whole situation.

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  2. rachthecake22 June 2013 at 07:59

    This is really good - I like how you have discussed Scout's view of the situation in court and your identification of the main points in the novel:)

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