Urgent!!! Plz need help in this excerpt questions. 10 points best answer .?TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE
Summer was melting away, and we made the most of it. Atticus assured us that nothing would happen to Tom Robinson until the higher court reviewed his case, and that Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial. He was at Enfield Prison Farm, seventy miles away in Chester County. I asked Atticus if Tom's wife and children were allowed to visit him, but Atticus said no.
"If he loses his appeal," I asked one evening, "what'll happen to him?" "He'll go to the chair," said Atticus, "unless the Governor commutes his sentence. Not time to worry yet, Scout. We've got a good chance."
Jem was sprawled on the sofa reading Popular Mechanics. He looked up. "It ain't right. He didn't kill anybody even if he was guilty. He didn't take anybody's life."
"You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus.
"Yessir, but the jury didn't have to give him deathif they wanted to they could've gave him twenty years."
"Given," said Atticus. "Tom Robinson's a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world's going to say, 'We think you're guilty, but not very,' on a charge like that. It was either a straight acquittal or nothing."
Jem was shaking his head. "I know it's not right, but I can't figure out what's wrong-maybe rape shouldn't be a capital offense. . . ."
Atticus dropped his newspaper beside his chair. He said he didn't have any quarrel with the rape statute, none whatever, but he did have deep misgivings when the state asked for and the jury gave a death penalty on purely circumstantial evidence. He glanced at me, saw I was listening, and made it easier. "-I mean, before a man is sentenced to death for murder, say, there should be one or two eye-witnesses. Someone should be able to say, 'Yes, I was there and saw him pull the trigger."'
"But lots of folks have been hung-hanged--on circumstantial evidence," said Jem.
"I know, and lots of 'em probably deserved it, toobut in the absence of eye-witnesses there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent."
4.What does Atticus Finch think will happen once a higher court reviews Tom Robinson's case?
6.What will happen to Robinson if he loses the court appeal?
9.Why does Finch feel that there was no chance of the jury giving Robinson a 20-year prison term?
10.What does Finch believe about circumstantial evidence?
16.Do you agree with Finch's statement that "before a man is sentenced to death for murder , there should be one or two eye-witnesses? why or why not?
20.From what you read in this excerpt , do you think Finch is a good man? Why or why not?
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4. He thinks that they will let him go because he didn't do anything that bad
6. He will be sent to the electric chair, if the governor doesn't pardon him
9.Robinson is black, and he doenst think that the court will let him off easy if they find him guilty
10.He thinks that there should be more evidence before they go killing someone, it could be the wrong person
16. Yes, there's always that small chance that the court is wrong and the person is innocent, and death is too big of a punishment to give to the wrong person
20. Yes, he is a good man, but is also fair, and will not question the law
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