What does Brady say at the press conference? How much time has passed? What does Brady say about Drummond and Hornbeck? Why is Sarah worried? What kinds of things does Brown say and do at the prayer service? What happens when Brady confronts Drummond?
How many days have passed? Who does Brady cross-examine? Who is Howard and what does he say? What does Brady say about Bert? What does Drummond declare is on trial? Why and about what does Davenport question Rachel? What does she testify? What does Bert insist and why? What does the judge rule about this? What surprise move does Drummond pull? What does this witness say? Who is Bishop Usher and what does he say?
What does Brady insist? How does the audience react? Act 3 1. Swatting flies and wrestling with justice—in that order? Why does Drummond tell the story of the Golden Dancer? Do you think Cates will continue to oppose the law he has been accused of violating? Who loses more, Brady or Cates? Brady asks Mr. Bannister if he attends church regularly. Bannister says he only attends on Sundays. Brady accepts him for the jury. Drummond questions him next. When he finds out that Mr.
Bannister has not ever read anything about evolution, Darwin, or even the Bible because he cannot read, Drummond also accepts him as a juror. Before the next person is called, Mr. Brady asks the judge if the men in the courtroom can remove their jackets. The judge grants permission.
Drummond says the court may be offended by his purple suspenders. The next candidate for the jury is called; he is Jesse H. Dunlap, a farmer and cabinetmaker. After proclaiming that he believes in the word of God and in Matthew Harrison Brady, he is accepted onto the jury by Brady.
Science vs. Drummond then questions Bannister , asking if Bannister has read Darwin or the Bible. Bannister answers that he cannot read, and Drummond, smirking, says this works for him—he agrees to have Bannister on the jury, and the Judge permits Bannister to enter the jury-box. Drummond, like Hornbeck, recognizes the irony in the fact that a good part of Hillsboro, despite being Christian, has not read Darwin, and has not even read the Bible from which the story of Creation is taken.
Brady moves, to the Judge , to ask if men in the court can take off their jackets, since it is so hot; the Judge agrees. The trial recommences. Another townsman, Dunlap , is accepted by Davenport as a juror Dunlap says he believes in God and trusts in Brady ; Drummond , however, does not accept Dunlap, implying that all jurors seem to be practicing and fervent Christians, and that no other viewpoints are represented among the jurors.
Drummond wonders whether a fair trial is even possible in Hillsboro, if almost all the townspeople are practicing Christians who worship Brady and who believe that the teaching of evolution is inherently immoral. When Brady is referred to by the Judge and others as Colonel, Drummond again objects, stating that it is prejudicial that Brady was given an honorary title as he entered the town.
The Mayor , confused and upset at what to do, agrees to grant Drummond temporary Honorary Colonel status, and Drummond, smugly, and apparently making light of these meaningless titles, accepts, and the jury selection continues.
Drummond has a point, here—how could one not sense the bias in the courtroom if one of the lawyers for the prosecution has been awarded a town honor, recently, and the other has not. Related Quotes with Explanations. A townsman named George Sillers , who runs the feed store, is called to testify as a potential juror. Sillers, like other characters in Hillsboro, is not so much concerned with religious principles as he is a passive believer in Christianity and in Christian values.
Sillers might state that he is opposed to evolution being taught in schools, but in reality the teaching of evolution has very little impact on his day-to-day life. Drummond , satisfied by this, accepts Sillers to the jury, but Davenport and Brady both worry that Sillers might be more open to an evolutionist argument, since he seems less fervently Christian than the other jurors.
Now Brady and Davenport wonder about the religiosity Sillers might bring to bear on the trial—this exposes the idea that they are in fact concerned with assembling a jury of Christian believers, since they think that this jury would be more likely to rule that Cates has broken the law in Hillsboro. Brady and Davenport are not dishonest, here, but they are also not above arranging the trial to their own advantage. The Judge tells both Drummond and Brady to stop—he states that the jury has been set, and orders the court to reconvene at ten the next morning.
The Judge also announces that Reverend Brown will be holding a prayer meeting in front of the court that night. Drummond makes what appears to be another reasonable point—that the Judge is apparently advertising a prayer meeting, which would prejudice the jury for one side of the trial and not the other.
Rachel makes another stab at trying to convince Cates that he ought to admit his guilt and move on with his life.
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