In chapter 17 Atticus
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Titus Pomponius Atticus is best known for his correspondence and close friendship with prominent Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero. Atticus, who was an editor, banker, and patron of letters, was from a wealthy Roman family of the equestrian class and Pomponian ancestry.
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What does Atticus ask Sheriff Heck Tate about three times during his testimony?
What did Atticus ask about during his cross-examination of Sheriff Heck Tate? Atticus asks whether or not a doctor had been called for the rape victim, and he also asked about the specific location of her injuries.
What question does Atticus ask Mr Tate three times?
Next, it's Atticus's turn to question the witness. He asks (three times) if Mr. Tate called a doctor to tend to the Ewell girl's injuries, and (all three times) Tate says no. Then he asks Tate to describe those injuries, and he says she had bruises and a black eye.
What were Atticus questions for Heck Tate?
Atticus asks where Mayella had been beaten, and Mr. Tate says, with some hesitation, that her right eye and entire right side of her face were bruised, and she had scratches all around her neck. Atticus knows that Tom Robinson could not have raped Mayella because he only has one working arm.
What does Atticus ask the sheriff to repeat about Mayella's injuries?
Atticus asks him repeatedly which side of the face Mayella's injuries were on. When the sheriff replies that the injuries were on Mayella's left side, Atticus asks him to clarify if that is his left side or the actual right side of a person standing across from him.
What does Atticus spend much of his time asking Mr Tate?
She said he was, so the sheriff arrested Robinson. What does Atticus spend much of his time asking Mr. Tate? He tries to establish which side of the girl's face was beaten.
What is the last question Atticus asks that gets no answer?
"Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father?" What is the last question Atticus asks Mayella? Mayella does not answer Atticus, and her face was "a mixture of terror and fury." After a few moments, she angrily explodes, reiterating her charge against Tom Robinson.
What question is asked by Atticus that shows both Mr Tate and Mr Ewell had no real concern about Mayella's condition?
What question is asked by Atticus that shows both Mr. Tate and Mr. Ewell had no real concern about Mayella's condition? If they had called for a doctor.
What does Atticus lead Sheriff Tate to remember?
What does Atticus lead Sheriff Tate to remember about Mayella Ewell's black eye? Atticus makes the sheriff remember that Mayella's injured eye was her right eye.
What is the first point that Atticus makes when questioning the sheriff Mr Tate?
What is the first point that Atticus tries to make in court? Atticus makes his first point in the trial when he questions the Sheriff (Heck Tate). His first point; no one involved called a doctor. During the discussion of Mayella's injuries, what key fact seems important to Atticus?
What did Sheriff Heck Tate say in court?
Gilmer, questions Heck Tate, who recounts how, on the night of November 21, Bob Ewell urged him to go to the Ewell house and told him that his daughter Mayella had been raped. When Tate got there, he found Mayella bruised and beaten, and she told him that Tom Robinson had raped her.
What really happened to Mayella Ewell?
With her mother dead, Mayella becomes a surrogate wife for her father and mother for her younger siblings.
Did Atticus lose the case?
Even though Atticus loses the trail case of Tom Robison, he believes powerfully that regardless of social inequalities, every man is equivalent in the courtroom.
What question is asked by Atticus that shows both Mr Tate and Mr Ewell had no real concern about Mayella's condition?
What question is asked by Atticus that shows both Mr. Tate and Mr. Ewell had no real concern about Mayella's condition? If they had called for a doctor.
What does Atticus lead Sheriff Tate to remember?
What does Atticus lead Sheriff Tate to remember about Mayella Ewell's black eye? Atticus makes the sheriff remember that Mayella's injured eye was her right eye.
Why did Atticus keep asking if the victim was taken to the doctor?
Why is this important? Atticus asked whether anybody called a doctor because if Mayella had been raped and concerned about her condition that they should have called a doctor. This is important because if they went to a doctor they would have been able to tell whether she was raped or abused.
Did Atticus lose the case?
Though the trial targets Tom Robinson, in another sense it is Maycomb that is on trial, and while Atticus eventually loses the court case, he successfully reveals the injustice of a stratified society that confines Black people to the “colored balcony” and allows the word of a despicable, ignorant man like Bob Ewell to ...