I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, and I am on page 305. The story so far is about the trial of Tom Robinson and the questioning of the lawyers. In this journal, I will be characterizing Tom Robinson.
While reading this book I can see that Tom Robinson has good characteristic traits but I am only going to talk about two of them. Tom Robinson is very kind and loving man. He helped Mayella by doing small jobs not expecting money from her. He helped her because he had such a big heart and he wanted to be nice. Calpurnia said that Tom robinson and his family were “clean-living folks” ( Lee 100). They are good people, they go to church and they do not do any harm to nobody. In chapter nineteen Tom said that he felt sorry for Mayella and her brothers and sisters because they all have to do everything in the house because their dad was always came home drunk and he did nothing to help. Even though Tom was injured and his left arm was broken, he cared and loved his family, he also helped anybody who needed his help and his was also respected like Scout, he never went to anybody's house without their …show more content…
Despite the fact that his left arm is broken it does not stop Tom from doing good to other people. Tom is a big, polite and strong worker with “broad shoulders and bull-thick neck,” and Scout see that “if he had been a whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man” (Lee 257). In his trail, Tom answered truthfully to every question that Atticus or other lawyers asked him. He tried to correct all the lies that Bob Ewell and his daughter told about him and he answered polite to all the questions that Atticus or the lawyers were asking him. He admits to Atticus that he did went to Mayella’s house
While reading this book I can see that Tom Robinson has good characteristic traits but I am only going to talk about two of them. Tom Robinson is very kind and loving man. He helped Mayella by doing small jobs not expecting money from her. He helped her because he had such a big heart and he wanted to be nice. Calpurnia said that Tom robinson and his family were “clean-living folks” ( Lee 100). They are good people, they go to church and they do not do any harm to nobody. In chapter nineteen Tom said that he felt sorry for Mayella and her brothers and sisters because they all have to do everything in the house because their dad was always came home drunk and he did nothing to help. Even though Tom was injured and his left arm was broken, he cared and loved his family, he also helped anybody who needed his help and his was also respected like Scout, he never went to anybody's house without their …show more content…
Despite the fact that his left arm is broken it does not stop Tom from doing good to other people. Tom is a big, polite and strong worker with “broad shoulders and bull-thick neck,” and Scout see that “if he had been a whole, he would have been a fine specimen of a man” (Lee 257). In his trail, Tom answered truthfully to every question that Atticus or other lawyers asked him. He tried to correct all the lies that Bob Ewell and his daughter told about him and he answered polite to all the questions that Atticus or the lawyers were asking him. He admits to Atticus that he did went to Mayella’s house