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Choice B: Tell how the following characters respond to the jury's verdict: Jem, Aunt Alexandra, Dill, Miss Maudie, Bob Ewell.


Jem: Jem is a character that like Atticus doesn't see the difference between white and black. He doesn't care about skin color and thinks that discrimination is morally wrong. While this is the case, he still hasn't seen the world outside of Maycomb and doesn't understand why people are the way they are. You can see this after the case when he was so sure that Tom was going to be voted innocent and everything looked so clear to everyone, but he was convicted anyway. He didn't understand why or how they could have done something like that just because he was black. Atticus was explaining to him that that's how people were and when he grew up, he would see more and more of it. 


Aunt Alexandra: The thing that is most confusing about Aunt Alexandra is that she is friends with everyone on town but is also Atticus's sister. While the whole town of Maycomb is against Tom Robinson and Atticus is defending him, she is somewhat in between. She wants to support her brother but at the same time, she wants respect from the town and to be popular. She didn't go to the case but like Atticus, she wasn't surprised with the final verdict. Later however, when Tom dies, she is sad and asks, "Why can't they just let him be? He didn't hurt anyone." She is the character in my mind that is like Dill and is starting to open her eyes.


Dill: Dill is very simple to answer. He was simply against it. In the beginning of the case, he ran out crying because of the way Mr. Gilmer was treating Tom. He couldn't understand why Atticus was so nice and he was so mean. Mr. Raymond said that he was in the middle: he was starting to see the world for what it was. By the end of the case, he was like Atticus.


Ms. Maudie: Ms. Maudie was one of the few people that didn't go to court. She heard the verdict and I'm pretty sure that she was sad even though she knew what it was going to be. She invited Jem, Dill and Scout into her house for cake to show that everything remained the same. I think that she is one of the people that doesn't like discrimination but she doesn't try to change people's minds. 


Bob Ewell: Obviously, he is happy that he has won the case and got the jury's favor but in his mind, he is angry at Atticus for his accusations and show it by spitting on him at the post office. Atticus is very cool about it and simply turns around and walks away. When Bob asks him if he's too scared to fight, he says, "No, I'm just too old." Scout and Jem are later worried that Atticus might get killed by Bob but he tells them that he was just angry and he needed to let it out and that he was glad that it was on him and not Mayella.