To Kill a Mockingbird Essay- Summative Assignment In our society, there is still a division between white people and black people. White people tend to think of black people as scary, criminals and captive people. Today, if a coloured person killed someone, they would be killed atomically or sent to prison; however, if a white person killed someone, they would lie and say they had some type of disease or issue. In the story, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, by Haper Lee, Mayella Ewell is a very complex character, who the reader eventually shows pity towards, as a result of her father’s treatment, living conditions, coming to light, her overtures towards Tom Robinson being revealed and finally cross examination during trail.
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Ewell told her daughter to say because they both knew that Mr. Ewell raped Mayella and they both had to have same stories, for the judge to believe them. Mayella had to protect her dad and to do so, lied and made innocent Tom Robinson put in jail and was shot seventeen times. Tom Robison is an innocent person because as he stated in him testimony, he only went there because Mayella asked for her help but all of a sudden she was grabbing and hugging him. Tom was not guilty for raping Mayella because one of his arms was longer than the other; therefore he could not have hurt her in any kind of way. But because he was black and they white people did not like the black people he was convicted. In the text, Atticus said, “I didn’t think so: Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella. […] If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it. This showed that Tom was clearly innocent because he was left handed and proved Mayella father, Mr. Ewell was guilty since Mayella was hint on her right side and Mr. Ewell was right-handed. In addition, Mr. Finch exchange with Mayella during her cross examination during
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Ewell told her daughter to say because they both knew that Mr. Ewell raped Mayella and they both had to have same stories, for the judge to believe them. Mayella had to protect her dad and to do so, lied and made innocent Tom Robinson put in jail and was shot seventeen times. Tom Robison is an innocent person because as he stated in him testimony, he only went there because Mayella asked for her help but all of a sudden she was grabbing and hugging him. Tom was not guilty for raping Mayella because one of his arms was longer than the other; therefore he could not have hurt her in any kind of way. But because he was black and they white people did not like the black people he was convicted. In the text, Atticus said, “I didn’t think so: Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella. […] If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it. This showed that Tom was clearly innocent because he was left handed and proved Mayella father, Mr. Ewell was guilty since Mayella was hint on her right side and Mr. Ewell was right-handed. In addition, Mr. Finch exchange with Mayella during her cross examination during