In the book to kill a mockingbird Atticus finch gets accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus is defending Tom as his lawyer. Even though there are some reasons atticus why shouldn’t be defending tom. Atticus was wise to defend him.
I think the biggest reason atticus is defending him is that it its the right thing to do because tom is innocent. He was falsely accused by the ewell family who are bad and dishonest people and everyone knows that but they still assist the ewells because tom is black. On pg.151 atticus is defending the county jail because there are people there to kill tom before he even goes to court. “We were walking a short cut across the square when four dusty cars came the meridian highway, moving slowly in a line… In ones and twos, men got out of the car. Shadows became substance as the lights revealed he shapes moving toward the jail doors. Atticus remained where was. The men hid from view, he’s in there Mr.Finch one of them men said. He is, we heard him say, and he is asleep so don’t wake him up.” Atticus did the right thing or else tom would’ve died. …show more content…
The book says , “she reached and kissed me on the side of my face. She then says she has never kissed an old man before and she might as well kiss a nigger. She said what her papa do to her don’t count, She then says kiss me back nigger. I say mayella let me outa here and tried to run but she got her back to the door and i’da have to push her. I didn’t want to harm her, Mr.Finch, and i say lemme pass, but just when i say Mr.Ewell yonder holloered through the window.” Atticus did the right thing to defend tom because tom never did anything and he was a nice guy with a
I think the biggest reason atticus is defending him is that it its the right thing to do because tom is innocent. He was falsely accused by the ewell family who are bad and dishonest people and everyone knows that but they still assist the ewells because tom is black. On pg.151 atticus is defending the county jail because there are people there to kill tom before he even goes to court. “We were walking a short cut across the square when four dusty cars came the meridian highway, moving slowly in a line… In ones and twos, men got out of the car. Shadows became substance as the lights revealed he shapes moving toward the jail doors. Atticus remained where was. The men hid from view, he’s in there Mr.Finch one of them men said. He is, we heard him say, and he is asleep so don’t wake him up.” Atticus did the right thing or else tom would’ve died. …show more content…
The book says , “she reached and kissed me on the side of my face. She then says she has never kissed an old man before and she might as well kiss a nigger. She said what her papa do to her don’t count, She then says kiss me back nigger. I say mayella let me outa here and tried to run but she got her back to the door and i’da have to push her. I didn’t want to harm her, Mr.Finch, and i say lemme pass, but just when i say Mr.Ewell yonder holloered through the window.” Atticus did the right thing to defend tom because tom never did anything and he was a nice guy with a