Ryley Emslander Due: Wednesday, Oct. 21
Journal 4 I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by harper Lee. Chapters 16-23 are about the Tom Robinson case. Jem, Scout, and Dill go to the courthouse when they are not supposed to. Before the case began, the whites sat in the middle of the courthouse square while the blacks sat in the corner with Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Heck Tate, Mr. Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson testify while Mr. Gilmer is the circuit Solicitor and Atticus defends Tom Robinson. In the end, Tom is guilty and when Atticus passes, the colored balcony of people stand. The town has mixed feelings of the jury’s decision. In this journal, I will be predicting the verdict of the case and evaluating the motive of why Mr. Ewell would lie.
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Finally, the time period of the story is in the middle of the whites segregation and hatred against blacks, which is why the Ewells side of the story would overpower Tom’s side. In the story, Reverend Sykes says “I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man”(Lee 279). Considering the time period and how people think about blacks might be enough to be in the favor of the Ewells. Next, the Jury could lean in the favor of Tom Robinson. First off, Tom has nothing to hide in his testimony. According to Mr. Link Deas in TKM, he says, “That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him”(Lee 261). In this, you can imply that over the eight years Tom has worked for Link Deas, he has not did one thing bad, so what would Tom’s motive be to lay a hand on Mayella. Secondly, Tom’s testimony is nowhere near Mayella’s testimony. According to Tom’s testimony, he says, “she scared me so bad I hopped down an’ turned the chair over”(Lee 259). This implies that he was not scared of Mayella, but he was scared that he would end up in court
Journal 4 I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by harper Lee. Chapters 16-23 are about the Tom Robinson case. Jem, Scout, and Dill go to the courthouse when they are not supposed to. Before the case began, the whites sat in the middle of the courthouse square while the blacks sat in the corner with Mr. Dolphus Raymond. Heck Tate, Mr. Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson testify while Mr. Gilmer is the circuit Solicitor and Atticus defends Tom Robinson. In the end, Tom is guilty and when Atticus passes, the colored balcony of people stand. The town has mixed feelings of the jury’s decision. In this journal, I will be predicting the verdict of the case and evaluating the motive of why Mr. Ewell would lie.
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Finally, the time period of the story is in the middle of the whites segregation and hatred against blacks, which is why the Ewells side of the story would overpower Tom’s side. In the story, Reverend Sykes says “I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man”(Lee 279). Considering the time period and how people think about blacks might be enough to be in the favor of the Ewells. Next, the Jury could lean in the favor of Tom Robinson. First off, Tom has nothing to hide in his testimony. According to Mr. Link Deas in TKM, he says, “That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him”(Lee 261). In this, you can imply that over the eight years Tom has worked for Link Deas, he has not did one thing bad, so what would Tom’s motive be to lay a hand on Mayella. Secondly, Tom’s testimony is nowhere near Mayella’s testimony. According to Tom’s testimony, he says, “she scared me so bad I hopped down an’ turned the chair over”(Lee 259). This implies that he was not scared of Mayella, but he was scared that he would end up in court