How Does Harper Lee Create Suspense At The Beginning Of Chapter 28?

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Lee creates tension from the start of the chapter

by setting it on a dark night as Jem and Scout walk to the Halloween pageant

. Scout mentions the Radley house as scary and Jem asks her is she is afraid of “haints,” or ghosts.

How is Lee building the suspense and tension of the story?

Harper Lee cleverly builds up suspense and tension –

partly by comments and events and also by her use of language

. … A feeling of suspense is created through the use of language in Chapter 28.

How does Harper Lee create a suspenseful mood at the beginning of the chapter name at least two examples?


Lee foreshadows the danger that Scout and Jem are in

when Bob Ewell threatens Atticus and his family. Atticus is not worried about this, and apparently thinks Ewell is harmless. He underestimates the wound to Ewell's pride. Yet it foreshadows Ewell's attack and builds suspense.

What happened in chapter 28 that was foreshadowed in the first line of the novel?

At the beginning of Chapter 28, Harper

Lee foreshadows Bob Ewell's attack by creating an ominous atmosphere during the night of the Halloween pageant

. Lee writes that the night was unusually warm and there was no moon in the sky.

How does Harper Lee build suspense in Ch 28?

Tension, or suspense, is built

through a series of events that involve Scout and Jem walking home alone at night and Boo Radley

Who does Atticus say killed Ewell?

As the men argue, Atticus realizes that

Boo Radley

killed Ewell, and it is Boo who Tate is trying to protect. They finally agree that Ewell did fall on his own knife, a decision Scout fully understands. Boo sees Jem one more time and then asks Scout to take him home.

What two people are called to the house TKAM Chapter 28?

The man heads to the Finch house, where Atticus lets him in. There's a bunch of running around, and

Atticus and Alexandra call

a doctor and the sheriff, in that order. Aunt Alexandra de-hams Scout and asks her what happened, but Scout says she doesn't know.

How does Harper Lee build tension?

Harper Lee creates tension

by using characterization and diction to begin

. Scout our narrator notes about Jem that “He sounded fishy”. The boys want to go get a glimpse of Boo and they use their male superiority to make Scout feel like she doesn't have to do it if she is scared.

What suspense does Lee create for the reader in this chapter?

What suspense does Lee create for the in this chapter?

Trial is starting, they will need to be strong, do not know outcome

but gets the impression that Atticus will do his best even if he believes he is going to lose.

What did Scout do that ruined Mrs Merriweather's pageant?

How does Scout “ruin” Miss Merriweather's pageant? Scout ruined Miss.

Merewether's pageant by falling asleep and missed her cue

. … Scout and Jem are the last ones to leave the party because Scout is embarrassed by her performance that night (missing her cue).

Who does Scout think the stranger in the corner is?

In chapter 29, Scout describes the incident to Sheriff Tate and finally recognizes that

Boo Radley

Who does Scout consider to be the loneliest person in the world?

Scout thinks that

Mayella

must be the loneliest person in the world because she spent a year saving money to send her brothers and sister out of the house just so she could spend a few hours with Tom.

Who is the stranger that rescued Jem?


Boo Radley

Did Boo Radley stabbed Mr Ewell?


Boo Radley killed Bob Ewell with the knife

that Ewell was going to use on Jem or Scout. Boo defended the kids and removed a town problem, which is why the sheriff proclaimed that Ewell fell on the knife.

Did Atticus think Jem killed Bob Ewell?


Atticus is convinced that it was Jem who killed Bob Ewell during Bob's retaliatory attack upon the children

. In Chapter 30 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Sheriff Tate, Atticus, Scout, and Boo Radley

Why did Scout beat up dill?

Scout was the one who beat up dill

because he staked her out, marked her as his property

, said that she was the only girl he would ever love, and then neglected her, so she beat him up twice but it did not good because it made Dill grew closer to Jem.

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