How Does Atticus Finch's Perspective Change

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As you know in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird, there is a scene in the book where there is a guy who is a person of color who was accused of “Raping” a girl named Mayella Ewell. Later, it bacame a court case. Atticus Finch took the case to help Tom. Back then, if you were to allegedly rape a woman, you were to be lynched by a mob by being hung, or kill you in any way shape or form. My question to you is “how did the readers and the kids (Scout, Jem, and Dills) perspective change during Tom Robinsons case from the begening, to the end of the case?”
When I was reading Tom Robinsons case, my feeling befor any the case started, I thought that this is not going to go well because back then, I knew that if someone were to rape a woman, your were
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The first person I interview was Karter Stucky. The first question I asked him was “How did you feel about the whole case from the start of the case to the end of it?” He said that Mayell Ewell seemed to be innocent for a while but then she confessed. He added that It made sence because her dad does drugs and attacks her,and the part that I agreed with is that he doesn’t like black people. The second question I asked was “How did you feel and react when Atticus was giving evidence that made Bob Ewell the suspect?”He explained that he felt happy knowing that Tom Robinson is not going to go to jail and happy that he got a confession. The last and final question I asked was “What were your emotions and reaction when Tom was declared guilty and then getting shot 17 times?”He didn’t like how the people are afriad to admit that they were sorry for Tom and didn’t like how it didn’t need to use 17 bullets just to kill Tom.The last person I interveiwed was Cameron Lee. I asked the same questions as I did to Karter to Cameron. For the first question, I mixed it up saying that “what were you wonder befor the case was going to happen. he said that he wasn’t sure that Tom actually raped Mayella Ewell and that he was in suspence of who did it. But when he found out that is was Bob Cameron Said quote on quote. “It was bolgnese” Camerons answer for the second question was true in my opion.

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