Personal Narrative: Tom Robinson Is Guilty

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I’m confused. I don’t know what to think or how I should feel. All my life white folks have always convicted black folks for doing something that wasn’t bad at all. I have thought this and thought that. I can’t make up my mind and can’t get my head on straight. I started to see things a little differently. Ever since the night before the trial something been bothering me. I can’t leave that thought alone. That night when me and my buddies went to the jail house I was thinking one thing, and by the next day I was thinking differently. All I know is that I’m lost.
Tom Robinson is guilty. While working on the farm, I keep thinking about that trial. There could be a possibility that he isn’t guilty. I don’t know. Just because a Negro is accused

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