<P> Sheriff Tate arrives and discovers that Bob Ewell has died during the fight . The sheriff argues with Atticus about the prudence and ethics of charging Jem (whom Atticus believes to be responsible) or Boo (whom Tate believes to be responsible). Atticus eventually accepts the sheriff's story that Ewell simply fell on his own knife . Boo asks Scout to walk him home, and after she says goodbye to him at his front door he disappears again . While standing on the Radley porch, Scout imagines life from Boo's perspective, and regrets that they had never repaid him for the gifts he had given them . </P> <P> Scout then goes back home to Atticus and stays up with him for a while in Jem's room . Soon Atticus takes her to bed and tucks her in, before leaving to go back to Jem . </P> <P> Lee has said that To Kill a Mockingbird is not an autobiography, but rather an example of how an author "should write about what he knows and write truthfully". Nevertheless, several people and events from Lee's childhood parallel those of the fictional Scout. Lee's father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was an attorney, similar to Atticus Finch, and in 1919, he defended two black men accused of murder . After they were convicted, hanged and mutilated, he never tried another criminal case . Lee's father was also the editor and publisher of the Monroeville newspaper . Although more of a proponent of racial segregation than Atticus, he gradually became more liberal in his later years . Though Scout's mother died when she was a baby, Lee was 25 when her mother, Frances Cunningham Finch, died . Lee's mother was prone to a nervous condition that rendered her mentally and emotionally absent . Lee's older brother Edwin was the inspiration for Jem . </P> <P> Lee modeled the character of Dill on her childhood friend, Truman Capote, known then as Truman Persons . Just as Dill lived next door to Scout during the summer, Capote lived next door to Lee with his aunts while his mother visited New York City . Like Dill, Capote had an impressive imagination and a gift for fascinating stories . Both Lee and Capote were atypical children: both loved to read . Lee was a scrappy tomboy who was quick to fight, but Capote was ridiculed for his advanced vocabulary and lisp . She and Capote made up and acted out stories they wrote on an old Underwood typewriter Lee's father gave them . They became good friends when both felt alienated from their peers; Capote called the two of them "apart people". In 1960, Capote and Lee traveled to Kansas together to investigate the multiple murders that were the basis for Capote's nonfiction novel In Cold Blood . </P>

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