Answer:
This chapter begins right after the incident with the Cunningham mob. Atticus brings the two children home, and Jem is eating a heaping helping of breakfast. Aunt Alexandra is very unhappy that Scout and Jem snuck out.
Children who slipped out at night were a disgrace to the family.
Atticus said he was right glad his disgraces had come along, but Aunty said, "Nonsense, Mr. Underwood was there all the time." (ch 16)
Atticus feels differently about the incident than his sister. He feels that Scout and Jem got an important lesson about people’s behavior, and he is also happy that Scout was able to talk to Mr. Cunningham and bring him to his senses, deflating a very tense situation.
The trial has brought many conflicts to the Finch household. Aunt Alexandra has a very rigid view of behavior, especially children's behavior. She thinks that Atticus exposes his children to too many things they should not see. It is not as much their sneaking out that bothers her, but their continuous involvement in all of the unsavory aspects of the trial.
Explanation:
I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
Radical Innocent, 83.
This quote, spoken by Upton Sinclair, demonstrates the author's disappointment that the political point of his novel was overshadowed by the public's outcry over food production. Sinclair had meant for The Jungle critique capitalist economies. His goal had been to move the public to identify with the harsh realities of the working class and to garner sympathy for socialist viewpoints.
Instead, the country became outraged over the methods of food production. Sinclair's novel graphically illustrates the unsanitary and unethical standards by which meat was produced in the United States. The public was outraged that the government did not do more to protect the public and to maintain sanitation standards. This outcry eventually led to the Pure Food and Drug Act. The public was less concerned, however, with the treatment of meatpacking workers in
