The funny thing is that I've just completely wasted your time.
Mr. Heck Tate find Bob Ewell dead under the tree with a knife in him.
Sheriff Tate finds Bob Ewell dead from a knife wound, which was inflicted by Boo Radley to save Scout and Jem. He decides to cover up the true events and reports that Bob Ewell fell on his own knife.
When Sheriff Tate is on the stand Atticus asks him three times which side of her face Mayella's injuries were on. Sheriff Tate is confused at first and says her injuries are on the left, when he meant his left, and her right. This is significant because it implies a left handed attacker, and the man Mayella accused has a useless left arm.
1. "Well I can tell you why I didn't. It wasn't necessary, Mr. Finch. She was mighty banged up. Something sho' happened, it was obvious." (pg. 224) 2. "There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch. Let the dead bury the dead." (pg. 369) 3. "I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I'm still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife. Good night, sir." (pg. 370) The page numbers are from the new 50th anniversary edition!
Imagine you're lying on the ground with your face in the dirt. That's where it came from. People who are dead are pictured as biting the dust because they're lying down in it.
The ebony claw is lying on the floor in front of the Stormcloak soldier corpses.
Dead people in the trenches and having to see so many bodies lying on the ground as your passing through
Heck Tate finds Bob Ewell dead after the attack on Scout and Jem in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
In Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird, while everyone is in the room where Jem is resting, Sheriff Heck Tate comes in and informs them that Bob Ewell was lying on the ground dead with a kitchen knife stuck under his ribs.
Heck Tate uses the biblical expression, "Let the dead bury the dead" when he recalls the events surrounding Jem's assault. This is a quotation from the New testament in the bible qouted by Jesus. Mathew 8:19,21-22 .
why do they call it dead presidents
Well, honey, if you want to get technical, the Earth is the frame of reference in this scenario. So, that dead mosquito may be lying still on the ground, but it's still moving along with the Earth's rotation and orbit. So, technically speaking, it's in motion whether you like it or not.