Atticus listens for key details that can be used against the prosecutor. “Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.” pg 215 Atticus asks small questions that form the bigger picture in the end. “Slowly but surely I began to see a pattern of Atticus’s question: from questions that Mr.Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells home life.” pg 208 Atticus uses what seems to be innocent questions to expose Mr.Ewell and prove a bigger point, which is him beating Mayella. “Are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?” “I positively am not, I can’t use one hand as good as the other.” I believe that Atticus took his jacket and tie off because he wanted to show it was a very simple case and that he really believed this man was innocent. “... He unbuttoned his vest, unbuttoned his collar, loos...
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