Examples Of Tom's Conscience In To Kill A Mockingbird '

Tom’s conscience started to bring him guilt. After they had witnessed the murder, they find Dr. Robinson’s corpse in the graveyard along with Muff Potter’s knife. It was the talk of the town. Tom even started to have nightmares and he would talk in his sleep. Every day or two he found opportunities to go to the jail window and smuggle small gift. Injun Joe had gotten away with murder. Tom was worried about Becky, who hadn’t been coming to school. Tom had fallen “ill” and Aunt Polly was excited to experiment with medicine. After performing many treatments she settled with the newest thing, painkillers. Tom was given painkillers by Aunt Polly and only took them to what seems like once. He was tired of having to be given her treatments so he played with them …show more content…
Tom believed the cat wanted painkillers and the cat went wild and there was the end to painkillers. It did harm to the cat, it would do harm to Tom as well, Aunt Polly thought. At school Tom was doing everything possible to impress Becky, but failed. She completely spurned him, making him feel “unloved”. Tom believed that no one loved him and that thought led him to running away along with Joe Harper. They convinced Huckleberry Finn and so they went to their destination, Jackson’s island. They had jolly good fun and played pirates and such. Why they even swore not to do harm to women. The next morning Tom awoke and they made breakfast with what they had brought. They were exploring when they heard what was a loud noise and found that there was a search party. They were looking for them, why they must think they drowned. The thought made them feel like heroes. Then they thought of those who may be missing them. Tom had left and went to go check on his family. He sneaked in the house and found that Joe’s mother, his Aunt, Mary, and Sid were gathered tearful and full of regret for treating them so. He was almost caught, but he hid himself in