3. What's Interesting About Miss Maudie's Cake?

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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Jem is weeping tears of injustice.
At home, Alexandra softens up enough to tell Atticus she'south sorry he lost the instance—only she nevertheless doesn't think he should have let the kids listen in.
Atticus says that they have to deal with the fallout from it anyhow, and that racism is simply every bit much a Maycomb standby equally missionary teas are.
In the morning, he tells his family unit that it's non over however—at that place's nonetheless the entreatment process.
Breakfast is a lavish affair, as it seems every African-American in the canton has sent the Finches a gift of nutrient.
The kids head out to see Miss Stephanie Crawford giving a accident-by-blow account of the trial to Miss Maudie Atkinson and Mr. Avery.
Miss Maudie keeps Miss Stephanie from request rude questions and offers the kids some block. There are ii lilliputian cakes and one big one, and Picket thinks that Miss Maudie has uncharacteristically forgotten Dill, but then finds out the large cake is for Jem.
Scout realizes this is Miss Maudie'southward style of saying everything is still cool between them.
Jem is pretty bummed out. He always idea that Maycomb folks were good people, just information technology doesn't seem like that to him whatever more than, since no one stepped up to support Tom Robinson.
Really, Miss Maudie says, some did. Judge Taylor commonly appoints an inexperienced local lawyer as public defender, but made an exception in Tom Robinson's case to appoint Atticus instead.
And even though Atticus didn't win, he made the jury think most their decision for a long fourth dimension.
That'south a step in the right direction.
They leave Miss Maudie's house, and Dill says that he'due south going to exist a clown when he grows up, because the merely possible response to humanity is to laugh at it.
Jem says that Dill's got it incorrect: clowns get laughed at past anybody else.
Nope, Dill says. He'll be a new sort of clown, one who looks at the audition and laughs at them.
Miss Rachel and Aunt Alexandra tell the kids to get off the street, there's trouble coming, and Miss Stephanie butts in to tell them why: that morning Mr. Ewell spit in Atticus's face and told him that he had it out for him.