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Chapter 30 Reading Sample Answers

1) Scout realizes that even Arthur "Boo" Radley gets sick after Dr. Reynolds greets and treats him. 2) Mr. Tate and Atticus argue over whether Jem killed Mr. Ewell, with Mr. Tate insisting Jem couldn't have due to his broken arm. 3) Mr. Tate reveals he found the knife used to kill Mr. Ewell and declares Boo killed Mr. Ewell to save Scout and Jem, in order to protect Boo from scrutiny.

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Chapter 30 Reading Sample Answers

1) Scout realizes that even Arthur "Boo" Radley gets sick after Dr. Reynolds greets and treats him. 2) Mr. Tate and Atticus argue over whether Jem killed Mr. Ewell, with Mr. Tate insisting Jem couldn't have due to his broken arm. 3) Mr. Tate reveals he found the knife used to kill Mr. Ewell and declares Boo killed Mr. Ewell to save Scout and Jem, in order to protect Boo from scrutiny.

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Close Reading Organizer - Chapter 30 Sample


Answers
Directions: Read each summary entry and think about which themes listed in the
Themes Key apply to it, then color in those themes in the Theme Tracker. Next, write a
few sentences of Analysis to explain how the themes you chose apply to each summary
section.

Note: There is not always a definitive set of “correct” answers for which themes should appear in the
Theme Tracker. Answers that differ from the ones we propose below should therefore not automatically
be treated as incorrect, and in fact can serve as great discussion starters.

Themes Key
1 Good, Evil, and Human Dignity
2 Prejudice
3 Growing Up
4 Courage
5 Small Town Southern Life

Summary Theme Tracker Your Analysis

Atticus corrects Scout 1 2 3 4 5 Realizing that Boo must get


and blandly introduces her sick, too, and that Dr.
to Arthur Radley. Reynolds must’ve treated
Embarrassed, Scout runs him at some point opens
to Jem’s bedside and Scout’s eyes yet again to
notices Boo smile, but the fact that even people
Atticus cautions Scout to who seem wildly different
not touch Jem. Dr. from her aren’t really so
Reynolds returns and different—they get sick and
greets Boo, and Scout they care for their
realizes that Boo must also neighbors, just like Scout
get sick. Dr. Reynolds does. Scout’s choice to
shoos everyone out and attach herself to Boo and
Atticus suggests they go to make sure he’s comfortable
the porch. Scout leads Boo indicates that she’s also
down to the hall to the learning how to be a polite
porch and the rocking adult and a mature
chair in shadow. She sits caretaker.
beside him and Atticus
says that this will come to
the county court, but Jem

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is only 13 and it was self-


defense. Mr. Tate asks
incredulously if Atticus
really thinks that Jem killed
Mr. Ewell, and he insists
that Jem didn’t do it.

Scout watches in Mr. Tate’s reasoning for why


fascination as Mr. Tate Jem couldn’t have killed Mr.
and Atticus argue. She’s Ewell is almost exactly the
not quite sure what exactly same as Atticus’s case for
they’re fighting for or Tom Robinson’s innocence.
about. Mr. Tate says that This flags for the reader
Mr. Ewell fell on his knife, that, at least in some sense,
but Atticus insists that Mr. Tate has the right idea.
they can’t hush this up— Atticus wants to do the
it’d be horrible for Jem, right thing here by making
and Atticus doesn’t want Jem deal with the aftermath
to have to act one way in of the attack, but Mr. Tate
1 2 3 4 5
public and one way at insists that Atticus isn’t
home. Mr. Tate pulls out a thinking about this properly
switchblade knife and if he thinks that Jem did
suggests that Scout was anything wrong.
too scared to know what
happened. When Atticus
pushes back, Mr. Tate says
he’s not thinking of Jem
and points out that with a
broken arm, Jem wouldn’t
have been able to tackle
and kill an adult.

Atticus asks where Mr. 1 2 3 4 5 Especially once the adults


Tate got the switchblade. establish the truth of what
Coolly, Mr. Tate says he happened—that Boo killed
confiscated it from a drunk Mr. Ewell, probably with his
man, and that Mr. Ewell own kitchen knife—it
probably found the kitchen becomes clear that Mr. Tate
knife in the dump. Mr. Tate probably picked up the
says that it’s his choice, switchblade off of Mr.
not Atticus’s, and that Jem Ewell’s body before he sent
didn’t do anything. With Dr. Reynolds out to look. Mr.
his back to everyone on Tate also suggests they
the porch, Mr. Tate says have the opportunity to
that there’s a black boy create some semblance of
dead for no reason and justice for Tom Robinson by
now, the man who’s deciding on this story that’s

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responsible is dead. He not entirely truthful, but


says they need to let the that restores the safety of
dead bury the dead, and Maycomb.
he won’t stand for people
making a fuss over the
person who saved Scout
and Jem. He declares once
more that Mr. Ewell fell on
his knife and drives away.
Atticus asks if Scout can
understand that Mr. Ewell
fell on his knife. Scout says
she agrees—the
alternative would be like
killing a mockingbird.
Atticus thanks Boo for
saving his children.

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