How does Scout Finch stop the mob that wants to lynch Tom Robinson?

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Book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, featuring a silhouette of a child under a tree and a large moon, with the title in script and — To Kill a Mockingbird This book cover is one of many given to Harper Lee's classic work *To Kill a Mockingbird* (1960). The novel won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and the next year was made into an Academy Award-winning film.

Scout Finch inadvertently disperses the mob intent on lynching Tom Robinson by rushing into their midst. She recognizes Mr. Walter Cunningham, the father of one of her classmates, among the angry men. By innocently engaging him in conversation and addressing him personally, she forces him to acknowledge her presence and his own humanity, which effectively breaks up the mob.1