Theme Of Power In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the book “To kill a mockingbird” The sense of power is shown in each sitituation weather it went back to race, gender, and ethnicity. However men did over power women. Discrimination was quite common back then women and African americans didn’t recieve respect based off of your social class. Power is the ablity to do something or act in a particular way the quality of speech. It’s the direct influence of other people to follow who says what they think is right. The plot of this story was illegal and unfair towards Tom Robinson. In this type of sitiuation a woman was so called raped’ by Tom himself. Tom was an honest man he acted as the role of the victim. It was Mayella who kissed Tom, Her father Bob Ewell got very upset and lied about the whole thing. …show more content…
They had known for sure that tom would lose in the case, he didnt have many people by his side besides his lawyer Atticus who tried to prove the jury wrong that the whole thing was made up to cover up secret in the Ewell house hold. The white people of Maycomb threatned Tom and his life. The jury had illegal evidence to different stories were told from tom the attacker and the so called helpless victim Mayella. Because of Mayella’s gender she was powerless to society she was poor and asked Tom several times to help her, her race makes her powerful. The statement “because of Mayella’s class and gender she was powerless, but her race makes her powerful’ This statement is on the behalf of Mayella’s apperance and social profile. She is trusted because she is white. Regardless of the