To begin, I will be predicting the case verdict. First off, I believe Tom Robinson will be innocent. A reason for that is Bob Ewell is left-handed. That can indicate that Bob could have easily been the one to beat Mayella. Him being left handed also created the jury to imagine other possibilities instead of only Tom Robinson.…
In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the process of losing one’s innocence is shown to the readers. When a black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman, he must go to court. Because of a detriment he possesses, his skin color, it is Tom against the white skinned people of Maycomb. One white man, different from the rest, knows that Tom is innocent so he decided to defend Tom during his trial.…
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…
Ryley Emslander Due: Wednesday, Oct. 21 Journal 4 I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by harper Lee. Chapters 16-23 are about the Tom Robinson case. Jem, Scout, and Dill go to the courthouse when they are not supposed to.…
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee the character Tom Robinson was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Not only did Tom not rape Miss. Ewell, Tom was a good man even if he was a cripple. First and foremost Tom Robinson was a cripple. His left hand was injured when it was caught in a cotton gin, and “his left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side” (Lee 248).…
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is about a young girl, Scout, her brother, Jem, and their friend, Dill living in Maycomb County during the early 1930s. The three children hear stories about their neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley, and decide they want to try to get him out of his house. A few unsuccessful summers later, Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer that has been assigned a colored man’s case. The man, Tom Robinson, was accused of raping a white woman. As the children know this isn’t true, they don’t understand why he was found guilty.…
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella is powerful based on class, gender, and race. The book shows us how she does have power, and gives supporting evidence. In this time period, in a small racist Southern community during the 1930’s, all of the categories listed are very important and contributes a lot to a person. Each category has its own reasonings why Mayella is powerful. Mayella has much more power than the other person in their situation, because of all of the listed evidence.…
He is on trial for being an accused rapist, but the audience notices something about him, his left arm is crippled , Atticus is in the testimony of Mayella, he explains to the court “He got it caught in a cotton gin...when he (a) was boy...like bled to death… tore all the muscles from his bones”(page 249). Him telling this to the court shows that he is incapable of physically harming Mayella Ewell. Another example is when Scout, Jem and Dill are present at the case listening to the testimony of Tom Robinson . Scout realizes the reasoning for Mayella to have went below her skin color to feel a type of connection with someone ,the explanation is shown by Scout thinking “As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world”(page 250).…
In To Kill a Mockingbird, the community had, “the evil assumption-that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are immoral beings… (Lee 273).” The character in To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Scottsboro Trials, obviously looked past the fact that there was an obvious sketchiness to the testimony and evidence in the case. In Hollace Ransdall’s work she stated, “neither of the girls showed signs of any rough handling on their bodies, it made not an impression upon her (Ransdall)”. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus brings to attention, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place (Lee 271).” The insufficient amount of evidence didn’t change the minds of the character’s involved in the case because there was a lack judgement in the wat Negroes were treated.…
Evidence that ruled in Tom’s favor was immediately ignored by the jury. When Atticus Finch proved to the court that Mayella Ewell was beaten by a left-handed man since most of her injuries were on her right side, it was dismissed. Atticus Finch even confirmed that Tom Robinson was right-handed and had a bad accident at work that rendered him partially crippled. His left arm was withered and 12 inches shorter than his right which would make it nearly impossible for him to have beaten Mayella Ewell. Although, Tom Robinson is clearly innocent, he was still convicted for a crime he was not even physically capable of committing because of his race.…
In this paragraph, I am going to be characterizing Tom Robinson. One word that depicts Tom Robinson would be honest. He is honest for many reasons. My first reason is that he is able to admit anything that he has done. In the courthouse, Tom admitted that he had been convicted for thirty days because he fought with a man and he could not pay the fine to get out (Lee 254).…
Atticus said that “That Mayella Ewell had been beaten savagely by someone leading with their left hand.(Doc. B)” all evidence led to Mr.Ewell to be left handed because Tom could not hit her because he no longer had use of his left hand. She is powerful enough to win a case against a african american yet still go back to the life that offered her nothing even though she is white and is a…
The author includes this theme to attempt to educate her readers that forming ideas about people, especially during a time of negative thinking towards a specific group of people, is not morally correct and people should make more of an effort to get to know someone before judgment. In a novel that attempts to lead people away from prejudgment of African American citizens, there are many cases in which African Americans are spoken negatively about without a reason. One of the main events that takes place in To Kill a Mockingbird is the trial between Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, and Bob Ewell. Mr. Ewell claimed to have seen Tom Robinson raping Mayella, Bob’s daughter, and decided to take the case to court. Before the trial, Tom was in a jail cell in the middle of the town when a lynch mob approached.…
Can you imagine trying to defend a black man in the South during the 1930’s when racism was still extremely prevalent? Well that is exactly what Atticus Finch did in To Kill A Mockingbird. Tom Robinson was a black man accused of rape. Atticus, being a lawyer, took on the role of defending him. It was known that Tom had a mangled left arm and had no purpose in doing the accused crime, but in the end racism won, over and the court 's decision was guilty purely based on skin color.…
Tom Robinson, a black man in the novel, is accused of raping and beating a white woman, Mayella Ewell. In the trial, it is revealed through Atticus Finch’s questioning of witnesses that Tom Robinsons was innocent of the crime as he could not have physically raped Mayella Ewell. It is clear to everyone in the courtroom that Tom was innocent yet he was still convicted and found guilty by the jury. This shows that the jury, completely made up of white men, decided to convict a black man, not because they believe he had committed the crime, but because that is what they were taught should happen to a black man who was accused of committing a crime against a white person. Those adults were of the belief that all black men do terrible things and are beneath them.…