Boo Radley Trial

Many people are pressured to share their lives. People who are influential or have a substantial following are constantly hounded by the media to share everything that happens within their life. The book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is about Jem, Dill, and Scout’s escapades with the town legend Arthur Radley, commonly known as “Boo Radley”, who stays in the confines of his house for most of the duration of the book but eventually resurfaces to the real world to save Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell who tries to murder them in a drunken stupor and Tom Robinson, a black man who was wrongfully convicted of rape after helping Mayella Ewell with tasks she would give Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley are both mockingbirds who get shot down by the

For example, when Tom Robinson’s court is in trial, the testimony stated that Mayella had hand marks all around her neck and a bruise on her right eye and Atticus shows how, “[Tom Robinson’s] left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side.” Tom Robinson could not have choked Mayella with both hands since he was crippled. Tom Robinson also would have trouble punching Mayella in her right eye since when using your hand, you tend to swing at the nearest target, which would have been her left eye. Furthermore, when Atticus, distraught, is speaking about Tom Robinson’s death, he states “They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him” (Lee 239). In the court case, the jury ignored the evidence for Tom Robinson's innocence and claimed him guilty. After Tom Robinson’s death, the town of Maycomb acknowledged his disability, which should have shown him not guilty of raping Mayella. Tom Robinson’s accusation had little to no evidence but due to the court electing to ignore his broken arm, he was found guilty and was sent to jail, which led to his brutal death, him being shot 17