Tom Robinson is a great example of prejudice. At the middle of the story, Atticus Finch was soon known to be defending a black man named Tom Robinson. Everyone judged Atticus because he was judging a man with color. No one cares what he did, the fact that he was black. Everyone kept calling him a “nigger-lover”, meaning someone favoring negroes over and above anyone. Tom Robinson is on trial for beating and raping Mayella. Atticus proves that Tom Robinson could not have attacked Mayella because his left arm is crippled. Tom Robinson could not have been the one who beat Mayella on the right side of her face which is where her bruises were. Mayella was beaten by a left-handed attacker. Tom Robinson's left arm had been crippled since he was a
