To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 19 Script
Nicholas Marshall and Benjamin Frost
October 27, 2012
English
Ms. Barton To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Chapter 19 Setting: Maycomb Courthouse
Characters:
Thomas “Tom” Robinson, Judge Taylor, Atticus Finch, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch,
Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, Mr. Gilmer, Mr. Link Deas, Reverend
Sykes, Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Tom reaches around, runs fingers under left arm, and lifts it. Guides arm to Bible. Raises right hand, left arm slips off Bible, hit’s clerk’s table.
Judge:
(
Growling
)
That’ll do, Tom.
Atticus:
It must have been disorderly. What did it consist of?
Tom:
Got in a fight with another man, he tried to cut me.
Atticus:
Did he succeed?
Tom:
Yes suh, a little, not enough to hurt, You see I— (
Moves left shoulder
)
Atticus:
Yes. You were both convicted?
Tom:
Yes suh, I had to serve ‘cause I couldn’t pay the fine. Other fellow paid his’n.
Dill leans across
Scout
to
Jem.
1
Dill:
What is Atticus doing?
Jem:
He’s showing the jury that Tom has nothing to hide.
Atticus:
Were you acquainted with Mayella Violet Ewell?
Tom:
Yes suh, I had to pass her place goin’ to and from the field every day.
Atticus:
Whose field?
Tom:
I picks for Mr. Link Deas
Atticus:
Were you picking cotton in November?
Tom:
no suh, I works in his yard fall an’ wintertime. I works pretty steady for himall
year round,he’s got a lot of pecan trees’n things.
Atticus:
You say you had had to pass the Ewell place to get to and from work. Is there any other way to go?
Tom:
No suh, none’s I know of
Atticus:
Tom, did she ever speak you?
Tom:
Why, yes suh, I’d tip m’ hat when I’d go by, and one day she asked me to come inside the fence and bust up the chiffarobe for her.
Atticus:
When did she ask you chop up the—the chiffarobe?
Tom:
Mr. Finch, it was way last spring. I remember it because it was choppin time and I had my hoe with
October 27, 2012
English
Ms. Barton To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Chapter 19 Setting: Maycomb Courthouse
Characters:
Thomas “Tom” Robinson, Judge Taylor, Atticus Finch, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch,
Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, Mr. Gilmer, Mr. Link Deas, Reverend
Sykes, Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Tom reaches around, runs fingers under left arm, and lifts it. Guides arm to Bible. Raises right hand, left arm slips off Bible, hit’s clerk’s table.
Judge:
(
Growling
)
That’ll do, Tom.
Atticus:
It must have been disorderly. What did it consist of?
Tom:
Got in a fight with another man, he tried to cut me.
Atticus:
Did he succeed?
Tom:
Yes suh, a little, not enough to hurt, You see I— (
Moves left shoulder
)
Atticus:
Yes. You were both convicted?
Tom:
Yes suh, I had to serve ‘cause I couldn’t pay the fine. Other fellow paid his’n.
Dill leans across
Scout
to
Jem.
1
Dill:
What is Atticus doing?
Jem:
He’s showing the jury that Tom has nothing to hide.
Atticus:
Were you acquainted with Mayella Violet Ewell?
Tom:
Yes suh, I had to pass her place goin’ to and from the field every day.
Atticus:
Whose field?
Tom:
I picks for Mr. Link Deas
Atticus:
Were you picking cotton in November?
Tom:
no suh, I works in his yard fall an’ wintertime. I works pretty steady for himall
year round,he’s got a lot of pecan trees’n things.
Atticus:
You say you had had to pass the Ewell place to get to and from work. Is there any other way to go?
Tom:
No suh, none’s I know of
Atticus:
Tom, did she ever speak you?
Tom:
Why, yes suh, I’d tip m’ hat when I’d go by, and one day she asked me to come inside the fence and bust up the chiffarobe for her.
Atticus:
When did she ask you chop up the—the chiffarobe?
Tom:
Mr. Finch, it was way last spring. I remember it because it was choppin time and I had my hoe with