Harper Lee makes the ending of `To Kill A Mockingbird' exciting and satisfying by building up tension and resolving key parts to the story in some way or another.

It is really chapter twenty-eight that makes the end of the book exciting. It is in this chapter that Scout and Jem are attacked when walking home from Maycombe County's Pageant. I think that the first feelings of tension and excitement in this chapter are felt when Scout and Jem turn to return to the auditorium to fetch Scout's shoes that she has left behind the stage. It just happens to be at this exact moment that the auditorium lights go off, which seems to be rather mysterious, "But as we turned around the auditorium lights went off." When the lights go off, we feel that the pair are alone and we wonder quite why this event has happened and what may proceed it. It starts us thinking. The tension begins to mount, when Jem stops and tells Scout to be quiet so that he can listen. He does this a number of times and we begin to wonder what it is that he can hear, " 'Thought I heard something,' he said. 'Stop a minute.' " The darkness also plays a role in building the excitement and te

I think that Harper Lee has ended this book very well. After the court case and Tom Robinson's death, we did not really know what was left to happen in the book. At one point it may have been felt that the book had lost momentum, but Harper Lee includes the final event with Bob Ewell and the children to make the ending exciting, and it does this exact thing. It would not however have been good to end the book entirely on this note, as there would not be the same sense of satisfaction. Lee includes the last couple of scenes to make us feel the satisfaction gained through wrapping up several loose ends and concluding the book on what I believe to be a warm, final note.

Not only is the end of the book exciting, but it is satisfying too. I believe the ending is satisfying by the way in which Harper Lee resolves some of the key things in the book. The first thing I think we feel is resolved and the most obvious, is that Bob Ewell dies. He was not a nice person and no one ever really liked him. He had Tom Robinson charged for a rape that he didn't commit and so by having him killed, Lee makes us feel that justice has been done and he got what he deserved. By having Bob die, we also feel satisfied that the threat has been removed. The second key thing that is resolved at the end of the book is Scout's whole relationship with Boo Radley. At the beginning of the book, Boo was the centre of attention, and Scout was very interested in him. She was always trying to get a glimpse of him and she was always wondering about him. He then disappeared from the main story line, as that became involved with Atticus' court case and Tom Robinson. At the end of the book, Harper Lee reintroduces Boo, and Scout finally meets him. When Boo is revealed, Scout greets him as if they have been friends for years, "Hey, Boo." We feel satisfied that Boo has finally been revealed to us and Scout. There is also satisfaction felt in the moral of the story. At the beginning of the book, Boo was stereotyped as being a bad person and people gossiped about him, "As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities." At the end of the book, Harper Lee shows Boo to be the hero of the book, saving the children and so shows that he was wrong to be ster

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