When reading this section I found a symbol in Dill returning to Maycomb. Dill has been a big part of Jem and Scouts childhood over the past few years, even as they start to face the adult world. I feel that Dill returning offers them a hope that their childhoods aren't over, and that they will still be able to have fun even with Atticus being busy and Aunt Alexandria living with them.
When the kids went with Calpurnia to her all-black church, we were offered our first glimpse into the black community of Maycomb. I could picture the setting of the church, and Lee does a good job of showing how happy everybody is even though the majority of them can't read. Only a handful of folks can read there and they lead the congregation in hymn. They are all very kind and offering, it's not really a big deal to most of them when they are demanded to donate to Tom Robinson.
The conflict of Atticus and Tom Robinson versus everybody else in Maycomb continues to unfold. It's more intense in this section than the previous sections, we see how the adult community is acting about it. All of the men in Maycomb, even the men that are very rarely ever seen, try to talk Atticus out of defending Tom Robinson in this case. One of them said, "You have everything to lose, Atticus." Even in these conflicts, the people of Maycomb still care about eachother.
In this section, I've learned how there can be multiple sides to things and that no matter what somebody cares about you and your decisions. Through the small glimpse of the black community we got in this section, we see how kind, caring, and fun most of them are. In the white community they ridicule blacks and think of themselves as better. Many people in Maycomb disapprove of Atticus' decision to defend a black man, yet they still care about him.
