It is in
the second part ofwhengoes to the town's jailhouse to stand guard for Tom Robinson's protection.
Atticus had received word that, even though he is behind bars, Tom is far from safe. A lynch mob
is likely coming for him that night.
There are many good quotes that you
could select from to help illustrate this tense episode from the book. Consider the
following.
The description of the jailhouse itself is noteworthy. It paints
the picture of the building as austere and formidable. It is clearly not an inviting placeit is
a jail after all. This short description helps set the mood for the events to follow:
Starkly out of place in a town of square-faced stores and
steep-roofed houses, the Maycomb jailhouse was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two
cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses.
We see the tension really start to build soon after. It is Atticus's subtle yet
deliberate response to an incoming threat that shows us exactly why he is visibly sitting
outside the jailhouse in the middle of the night and how he is a man who keeps his
cool:
We saw Atticus look up from his newspaper. He closed
it, folded it deliberately, dropped it in his lap and pushed his hat to the back of his head. He
seemed to be expecting them.
Although it does not happen
exactly how she intends it to,is able to diffuse the potentially dangerous situation that occurs
next. After attempting to make small talk with Mr. Cunningham, the man decides to call off their
plans for lynching Tom Robinson. The following quotation could illustrate that the situation has
been temporarily resolved:
As they had come, in ones and
twos the men shuffled back to their ramshackle cars. Doors slammed, engines coughed, and they
were gone.
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