Journal #6- chapters 15-17 from the perspective of Dill

I knew that when I returned to Maycomb this time there would be more trouble. There was a mob of hundreds of people outside Atticus’s house because of Tom Robinson! Well not hundreds, but there were many people outside, enough to be called a mob. They were all oblivious to what we all felt inside that house. We were pretty scared for everybody, but it was interesting. Atticus would not dispel them any time soon. He knew that they wanted something to do with Tom Robinson, so he went down to the jail to protect him. Mean Aunt Alexandra wouldn’t let us follow him. She said it was too dangerous, but we’ve been up to the Radley’s house, and we survived. That didn’t stop us though. We still followed Atticus after we snuck out of the house. There were even more people down by the jail. They all looked different though. It was people we know. All of the people complacently indulged in protest. Scout really showed Walter Cunningham what it was like to be in Atticus’s position right now.
When the trial was starting, it was amazing to see all the towns’ people who wanted to watch the case. I sure learned about all the people that inhabited Maycomb, Like Dolphus Raymond. Everyone thought he was drunk. He married a colored woman, and had half white, half black kids. Now the white people don’t want them because they’re black, and the black people don’t want them because they’re white. All the people sat and ate lunch on the grass with acquiescence, although most of them probably weren’t too amiable if they wanted to listen to a court case like this.