In 1931, there was a famous case called “Scottsboro boys trials” about nine African-Americans were accused of gang rape by two young Caucasian women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. The characters in the trial has similar background and personalities as the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The trial and the novel can be compared from their court session and the characters that are plaintiffs and defendants. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the trial of Scottsboro Boys Trial, there are many figures that has mirror each other. The main figures shows certain characteristics that are similar during their trials and background of themselves. The characters however shows a part of the history from the 1930's of how the whites always kept the “Negroes”
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In the Scottsboro Boys trial, Ruby Bates had an abusive father under the influence of alcohol that would beat herself, siblings and his wife. He was so abusive that he horse whipped his son and was sent to jail for it; later her family moved to northern Alabama , settling into Huntsville. In the trials, the sheriff told the judge “...her arms were bruised and she showed me her neck. There were definite finger marks on her gullet [her esophagus]” (Lee 226). When the sheriff told the judge and Atticus that about Mayella it gave Atticus a lead on the case to help prove Tom Robinson to be innocent. Atticus asks Mayella “Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father”(Lee 251). Atticus figured that she was abused from her father and not from Tom because Mayella was abused mostly on her right side and it was from a left-handed person. Her father Robert E. Lee Ewell was proven left-handed when he wrote his name on the envelope that Atticus shown to the jury and the judge, but the judge didn't quite understand why writing his name would reason anything. Atticus figured that Robert E. Lee Ewell was left-handed while he was writing his name that he had to be the one who actually abused Mayella from her bruises that are visible on her body. It couldn't be Tom Robinson because his left arm can not be in use or not function properly. When both of these two characters were in court they …show more content…
These two men are quite similar to compare, [Haywood Patterson was falsely accused he spent the next sixteen years of his life in Alabama courtrooms and prisons.](Linder, “Patterson”).in one of the prisons called Atmore Haywood would had to face harsh treatments from prison guard and had him sweep floors, work on rice and corn fields and at Kilby prison he was responsible for carrying dead inmates out of the execution room. Ever since he was convicted guilty from a false crime, he claimed heading back to prison was hard for him. In the novel, Atticus said “The state has not produced one iota of medical to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this court room is.” (Lee 271) Atticus have said that Tom Robinson is pleaded guilty and charged with lack of evidence from cross-examination, but the Ewell's were not guilty and Tom was an innocent man being accused guilty. Even though Tom was clearly proven innocent 11 out of 12 voted for Tom to be guilty from the jury because they didn't see a reason why he should be innocent. In both trials and novel Tom and Haywood were killed after being convicted guilty. [In February 1941, an inmate paid
In the Scottsboro Boys trial, Ruby Bates had an abusive father under the influence of alcohol that would beat herself, siblings and his wife. He was so abusive that he horse whipped his son and was sent to jail for it; later her family moved to northern Alabama , settling into Huntsville. In the trials, the sheriff told the judge “...her arms were bruised and she showed me her neck. There were definite finger marks on her gullet [her esophagus]” (Lee 226). When the sheriff told the judge and Atticus that about Mayella it gave Atticus a lead on the case to help prove Tom Robinson to be innocent. Atticus asks Mayella “Who beat you up? Tom Robinson or your father”(Lee 251). Atticus figured that she was abused from her father and not from Tom because Mayella was abused mostly on her right side and it was from a left-handed person. Her father Robert E. Lee Ewell was proven left-handed when he wrote his name on the envelope that Atticus shown to the jury and the judge, but the judge didn't quite understand why writing his name would reason anything. Atticus figured that Robert E. Lee Ewell was left-handed while he was writing his name that he had to be the one who actually abused Mayella from her bruises that are visible on her body. It couldn't be Tom Robinson because his left arm can not be in use or not function properly. When both of these two characters were in court they …show more content…
These two men are quite similar to compare, [Haywood Patterson was falsely accused he spent the next sixteen years of his life in Alabama courtrooms and prisons.](Linder, “Patterson”).in one of the prisons called Atmore Haywood would had to face harsh treatments from prison guard and had him sweep floors, work on rice and corn fields and at Kilby prison he was responsible for carrying dead inmates out of the execution room. Ever since he was convicted guilty from a false crime, he claimed heading back to prison was hard for him. In the novel, Atticus said “The state has not produced one iota of medical to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this court room is.” (Lee 271) Atticus have said that Tom Robinson is pleaded guilty and charged with lack of evidence from cross-examination, but the Ewell's were not guilty and Tom was an innocent man being accused guilty. Even though Tom was clearly proven innocent 11 out of 12 voted for Tom to be guilty from the jury because they didn't see a reason why he should be innocent. In both trials and novel Tom and Haywood were killed after being convicted guilty. [In February 1941, an inmate paid