Harper lee uses conflict to express the ideas that people will lie in hopes of hiding their shame. An example of this is shown when Mayella Ewell tempts a black man, Tom Robinson and is caught in the act by her father. This was a very shameful thing, something that could ruin her reputation if word were to get out because after all she’s a white woman and Bob Ewell was very aware of how people would view their family after an embarrassing thing his daughter committed.
Furthermore it’s important to go in depth to why Mayella would ever commit this mistake of hers because her desires were more important than the code she was breaking. Mayella is a very lonely person and is a victim of poverty and abuse …show more content…
We see this quote from her in the book, “No I don’t recollect if he hit me, I mean yes I do, he hit me”. We can see here that she falters and tries her best to confirm her father’s testimony but gets the lies mixed up. Why Mayella wants to put Tom Robinson away makes all the sense in the world, because after all when has a black man’s word won the word of a white person especially during this …show more content…
She says what her pap do to her don’t count”. Hearing something like that is very strange but in this chapter of Tom’s testimony he explains how Mayella came onto him and so on. It makes sense why her father would want to blame Tom, a crime he did not commit but because of the scene that was committed shortly after Tom ran away from the Ewell’s house after being assualted it made the most perfect sense to blame it all on the poor black man because he is black and she is white. It fits and there wouldn’t be a chance of him being found innocent and Bob knew this. Mayella did as well and lied about about happened and yet still covers up for her father who abused and sexual assaulted her, but it wasn’t only for that it was because she didn’t want anyone to know that she came onto a black man. She was ashamed and she had all the right to be for her unspeakable
Furthermore it’s important to go in depth to why Mayella would ever commit this mistake of hers because her desires were more important than the code she was breaking. Mayella is a very lonely person and is a victim of poverty and abuse …show more content…
We see this quote from her in the book, “No I don’t recollect if he hit me, I mean yes I do, he hit me”. We can see here that she falters and tries her best to confirm her father’s testimony but gets the lies mixed up. Why Mayella wants to put Tom Robinson away makes all the sense in the world, because after all when has a black man’s word won the word of a white person especially during this …show more content…
She says what her pap do to her don’t count”. Hearing something like that is very strange but in this chapter of Tom’s testimony he explains how Mayella came onto him and so on. It makes sense why her father would want to blame Tom, a crime he did not commit but because of the scene that was committed shortly after Tom ran away from the Ewell’s house after being assualted it made the most perfect sense to blame it all on the poor black man because he is black and she is white. It fits and there wouldn’t be a chance of him being found innocent and Bob knew this. Mayella did as well and lied about about happened and yet still covers up for her father who abused and sexual assaulted her, but it wasn’t only for that it was because she didn’t want anyone to know that she came onto a black man. She was ashamed and she had all the right to be for her unspeakable