Jean Louise is so disgusted with the contents of “The Black Plague” pamphlet that she says it makes “Dr. She sits at a table in her former backyard and tries to fight back nausea. He offers to give her a second helping of ice cream if she can remember him. She purchases a dish of ice cream from the man at the window, who recognizes her although she doesn’t recognize him. The incongruity of seeing her father and Hank now sitting in silence during O’Hanlon’s racist invective is too much for Jean Louise to bear.ĭazedly leaving the courthouse, she wanders automatically to the place where her childhood home used to stand. While O’Hanlon makes highly offensive statements about blacks, Jean Louise remembers a trial during her childhood when Atticus won an acquittal for a black man accused of rape. Grady O’Hanlon, a travelling speaker, begins to lecture the group on the importance of segregation. She slips into the Colored balcony of the courtroom and sees Atticus and Hank in the company of men she knows to be deep-rooted racists, men she is sure her father despises. Convinced that her aunt must be mistaken, Jean Louise walks into town to the council meeting currently in session at the courthouse. Jean Louise learns from her aunt that her father and Hank are active members of the Maycomb County Citizens’ Council, a group dedicated to preserving whites’ authority. Jean Louise assumes that Alexandra doesn’t know what the pamphlet says and shockingly learns that Alexandra has not only read it but agrees with it. Disgusted by the pamphlet, Jean Louise asks Alexandra where it came from, and Alexandra says it belongs to Atticus. The pamphlet argues that black people are genetically inferior to white people and that non-white races ought to be always under the leadership of whites. Jean Louise discovers a pamphlet in the living room titled “The Black Plague” bearing a drawing of an African cannibal. After Sunday dinner, Hank and Atticus go to a meeting at the courthouse.

Go set a watchman