I am reading the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In the chapters sixteen through chapter twenty-three, Scout, Jem and Dill watch the trial of Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping Bob Ewell’s eldest daughter. Atticus, the defendant of Tom Robinson, lost the trial and Tom was brought to prison, where he attempted to escape, but was shot and killed. Although Tom was innocent, and Atticus proved that he was in the trial, the fact that he was a black man outweighed the fact that Bob Ewell was the one that beat Mayella, the victim of the supposed rape and the evidential beating. In this journal, I will be characterizing Tom Robinson and analyzing why Bob Ewell lied about his daughter’s attack.
