Wednesday, June 9, 2010

How does Judge Taylor react to Scout's performance at the pagaent?

In ,
Maycomb County High School hosts a Halloween festival and Mrs. Merriweather organizes a pageant
to entertain the community during the festivities. Mrs. Merriweather composes an original
pageant entitled Maycomb County: Ad Astra Per Aspera, where the local
children wear costumes representing the town's agricultural products and walk onto the high
school stage. 's role in the pageant is to wear a ham costume and march onto the stage when Mrs.
Merriweather calls out "Pork." After calling out the various agricultural products in
order, the children will align on stage and proceed to sing "Maycomb County, Maycomb
County, we will aye be true to thee" as the grand finale.

During the
pageant, things do not go as planned and Scout falls asleep while Mrs. Merriweather is giving a
thirty-minute explanation of Colonel Maycombs exploits. Just before the grand finale, Mrs.
Merriweather calls out "Pork" several times but Scout does not respond. As the band
begins to play Dixie, Scout suddenly wakes up and recognizes that she should be on stage. While
Mrs. Merriweather is proudly holding the state flag, Scout runs onto the stage and interrupts
the grand finale. Later on, Scout learns that Judge Taylor was laughing so hard that he went
behind the auditorium and could not stop slapping his knee. Judge Taylor's wife eventually
brought him a glass of water and one of his pills to settle him down. Overall, Judge Taylor
finds Scout's actions hilarious and struggles to compose himself.

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