To Kill A Mockingbird Dbq

Power is a huge deal in America it controls almost everything we see today, including the way we live everyday. The story To Kill A Mockingbird is about a man named Tom Robinson who was falsely accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. In Maycomb Alabama class, gender, and race run everything during this time of segregation. If you were a woman in Maycomb you had no say or any right to voice your opinion, you were not to speak nor talk to a colored boy during this time. As a colored man in this time u had no rights, you worked for the white and you lived far away from them you didn't not associate with whites, as a white man then you have all the privilege in the world unless you're the Ewell’s. My paper will be about how class, …show more content…
As a women during this time many things you say will go unheard men ran the world during this time women didn't have free speech. She was a white women but to other white folks they didn't want anything to do with her at all. Mayella has been abused her whole life most likely by her father but will never tell anyone who it was Atticus asked her “Do you love your father, Miss Mayella?(Doc. B)” she replied with “He does tollable, ‘cept when-’(Doc. B)” Atticus asked her “Except when?(Doc. B)” Atticus also asked her “Except when he’s drinking?(Doc. B)”and Mayella replied with a nod. In the case of Mayella so much evidence proved abuse towards her by her father when at the courthouse. Atticus said that “That Mayella Ewell had been beaten savagely by someone leading with their left hand.(Doc. B)” all evidence led to Mr.Ewell to be left handed because Tom could not hit her because he no longer had use of his left hand. She is powerful enough to win a case against a african american yet still go back to the life that offered her nothing even though she is white and is a …show more content…
Sense she was a white women claiming a colored man raped her turned her into the ideal southern women. She had never been popular among the whites but if there was an opportunity to convict a colored man of a hate crime they would jump on it. In the story you can hear many times about how the Ewells wants the whites life when Mr.Ewell seen the chance to become a white man he accused Tom just to find out “He thought he’d be a hero, but all he got for his pain was.... Okay, we’ll convict this Negro but get back to your dump.(Doc. A)” They had their moment to be a white family, but it ended faster than it began. Atticus told the jury and the audience “The Ewells presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court… confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption--evil assumption that all negroes lie..(Doc. D)” right then Atticus had said that just because the Ewells are white they matter now that they're against a colored man. A preacher from the stands named Reverend Sykes had said “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr.Jem, i ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.(Doc. D)” He even knows that a colored man can't win over a white man in a racial battle. Mayella had been powerful enough to end an innocent man's life under false assumptions, Maybe it was her dad who pushed her to lie maybe it was them wanting to be