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=Chapter 28 -= It was october and the weather was finally nice and warm out. Scout has her play tonight at the local school auditorium. Her and Jem head out on a walk through the night to go to the school. It's much darker out than they thought it would be and they begin to scare themselves as they pass the Radley residence. They come by the big oak tree and Cecil Jacobs leaps out and scares them while pointing a light in their face. Once they all calm down, they continue to head to the auditorium. After Jem leaves Scout with Cecil, the two begin to wander around the various activities in the gym until the play starts. All the kids are called on to prepare for the play and once the play starts, Scout finds that she can sit down inside her costume and she falls asleep. When the time came for Scout's part in the play, she was sleeping and Judge Taylor thought it was hilarious. The play director Mrs. Merrieweather was angered by Scout falling asleep but Jem said you could hardly tell that she screwed up. Once the play was all done, everyone left. Jem and Scout decided to walk back through the dark again. As they begin to approach the old oak tree by the Radley house, they notice a sound while they're walking. Everytime they stop walking, so does the sound. They think it's Cecil but it wasn't. Suddenly they stopped but this time the sound didn't. Then the footsteps they heard began to run towards them. Jem shouted Run, Scout! Run! Run! Scout fell down and Jem came back and helped her up. As they ran for the road, Jem got yanked back and Scout heard a scuffling to the ground with a dull crunch and then she heard Jem scream. She ran to Jem but was interrupted by a flabby male stomach accompanied with an Uff! The man tried to squeeze the breath out of Scout but something pulled the man off. It was another man and he took off with Jem in his arms. Scout got to the house to realize the man carrying the unconscious Jem was a good man, he was from the country. Atticus has others call the doctor and they call Mr. Tate to go look for a man on the loose. Doctor Reynolds says Jem has a broken arm and is unconscious while Scout has a bump on her forehead. Mr. Heck Tate makes sure everyone is alright. He states that he found Scout's dress that she dropped and some tattered pieces of her costume. Atticus realizes that Mr. Tate is uncomfortable and he asks him what is it Heck? Mr. Tate replies " Bob Ewell's lyin' on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He's dead, Mr. Finch."

=Chapter 29= The family took in the news of the death of Bob Ewell. Aunt Alexandra leaves to give them room to talk. Mr. Tate then asks Scout for her story on the whole thing. Scout tells about how Jem shouted and Atticus said he didn't hear anything. When Scout brings up the fact that she was in her costume, Mr. Tate pulls out the costume to look at it and notices there is a big slice on the wires on the back. The costume saved Scout from possible death. Scout finishes telling her story. At the end of the story, she talks about the guy that pulled Bob Ewell off of her and carried Jem home. Mr. Tate asks who and she points at the man standing in the corner. He is described to be very white and he become very tense when Scout points at him. It's then that Scout realizes, that the man that saved Jem and her was none other than Boo Radley.

=Chapter 30= The chapter starts off with Atticus introducing Boo Radley and Scout. Scout can't believe it. Atticus decides to take the conversation out on the front porch because it was still warm outside and the lighting in the house was too strong. Once out on the porch, Scout made sure to sit Boo in the seat with the least light because she thought he'd like being in the dark more. Atticus seems to get mad at Heck by the way he is talking to him and then says sorry to him. Mr. Tate and Atticus don't speak to Boo at all. They both spend the whole time discussing what happened. Mr. Tate claims that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife and died. Atticus disagrees strongly saying that Jem killed Bob in self-defense. Atticus says he must be truthful and not bend the truth of the story to keep his family safe. He claims he must be the same in public as he is in the house. Atticus proclaims that the day he can't look his kids squarely in the eyes, that's the day he's lost them and he can't lose them. Mr. Tate feels very strongly about the fact that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife. Mr. Tate explains exactly how it happened and he got in his car and left so that Atticus had no room to argue. Scout tells Atticus that she knows that Mr. Tate is right and the chapter ends with Atticus thanking Boo. =Chapter 31= The chapter begins where the last one left off. The conversation about the scuffle that happened that night is ended. Mr. Tate is gone and it is now just Scout and Boo Radley on the porch. Scout can tell Boo is socially impaired but she still gets the hint that he wants to say goodbye to Jem. She leads him to Jem's room where Jem is still laying unconscious. She tells Boo it's okay to pet him and Boo does. When Boo is done petting him, Scout escorts him to the door. Boo says in a whispered voice "Will you take me home?" Scout thinks to herself,I would lead him through our house, but I would never lead him home. By that, she means he is a man, and he can walk her to his house so she has Boo hold her like a gentleman would and they walk to Boo's house. Boo enters the house without a goodbye and that is the last Scout sees of him. Before she leaves, she walks over to Boo's window and notices it is a new angle of the neighborhood that she has never noticed. Scout begins to recollect memories of her life through what must have been Boo's eyes as he watched them grow up from inside his house. After that, Scout heads home to find Atticus reading a scary book called __The Gray Ghost.__ She tells Atticus to read it to her but he says she has beens scared enough, but she succeeds in convincing him that she is a big girl now. The story ends with Scout falling asleep and Atticus carrying her to her room, then Atticus spends the rest of the night in Jem's room awaiting his awakening.

Vocab - repertoire - A complete list or supply of dramas, opera pieces etc. Limelight- the center of public attention, interest, observation, or notoriety: telltale- a person who heedlessly or maliciously reveals private or confidential matters; tattler; talebearer. haint - Southern term for a ghost or other phenomenon believed to be supernatural. hock - Joint corresponding to the ankle. staccato steps - Steps that are short, abrupt or have been cut off crisply.

Kitchen knife, probably similar to what Bob Ewell died from.