Examples of foreshadowing in Chapter 23 of To
Kill a Mockingbird:
- "I wish Bob Ewell
wouldn't chew tobacco."-- Atticus's remark about Ewell's spitting tobacco in his face.
This is the first sentence of the chapter. - "I'd rather it
be me than that houseful of children out there."-- Atticus' remark to Jem that he would
rather have Bob threaten him than take it out on the Ewell children. This foreshadows
the depths of Bob's hatred: that he was willing to kill children to make good his
threat. - When Atticus tells his sister that Bob had gotten
it all out of his system, Alexandra replies, "I wouldn't be so sure of that." She
worries that Ewell may try something else besides spitting and
threats. - Jem's statement that he thinks he knows why Boo
stays shut away--"... because he wants to stay inside"-- is
realized after Bob's attack on the children. He decides to come outside when there is a
necessity to save his young friends, but after Scout walks him home--and he knows they
will be safe with Ewell dead--he retreats back into the home, and Scout never sees him
again.
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