In Scout's words, "The full meaning of the night's events
hit me and I began crying." As she lies in her bed and reflects upon the events of the
evening, most disturbing events, Scout realizes the danger in which her Father was
placed, only now comprehending the look in Atticus's eyes. She does not understand the
attitude of the townspeople who feel that a white man should only represent a Negro in
the most perfunctory manner. When they learn that Attiucus intends to do his best and
bring out the truth, the men march to the jail to threaten Atticus, with "the smell of
whiskey and stale pigpen" upon them. Those strangers into the midst of whom Scout has
jumped, she reflects, were not the men she has seen
previously.
Scout's weeps for her loss of innocence, the
threats on her father, whom she loves dearly, and for the evil in the hearts of men, men
that she has thought she recognized. Hers was a most traumatic
experience.
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