`How does Harper Lee make the end of the book
             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 tension here, as Jem and Scout cannot see anything. We are guided by what they can hear rather than by a description of what they can see, so we have to concentrate a lot more to try and work out what is happening. When the pair believe the noise they can hear is Cecil Jacobs, they call out to him, " 'I'll get him,' said Jem. 'He-y!' Hay-e-hay-e, answered the school- house wall." There is no reply but from the echo of the school-house wall, which, once again, gives the feeling of being alone. It is also at this moment that Scout and Jem become aware that the rustling noise they could hear before which stopped when they did, was not stoppin...