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Toms is viewed multiple ways. He is nice. He likes to help people do things and also a family man. He is also very respectful. Tom is lower than all the whites but still is respectful to them though they treat him like dirt. Tom is also helpful. Like Mayella Ewell said Tom helped her with what she needed. How the Ewells view him. The Ewells the he is real dirty. They think he is not clean probable because he’s black. They think he is nasty. Because all blacks are nasty back them. He is also unwanted. Just like all blacks are back then.Reason1. Why did the people in the balcony stand for Atticus passing. Atticus tried. He tried his hardest for Tom Robinson. He stood up for tom. Like the time they where going to get him from the jail. Also the

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