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Examples Of Mayella Ewell Lying Under Oath In To Kill A Mockingbird

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THE INTRODUCTION
Good afternoon, my name is Jack Prokott, and it is my pleasure to represent the State of Maycomb and to serve as a prosecutor on this very important case. On August 26, 193,6 the defendant in this matter is Mayella Ewell lying under oath.
THE THEME AND THEORY
Ladies and Gentleman this case is about Mayella Ewell lying under oath in court. Mayella feels guilty after lying under oath in court. Mayella lied about Tom Robinson raping her because she doesn't want her dad to beat her up if she tells the truth.
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Members of the jury, the state will review the evidence against Mayella Ewell who let her greed influence her decision to lie under oath. While her father Bob Ewell forced her to lie about the case so he wouldn't be …show more content…

Mayella said ¨ So he come in the yard´an I went into the house to get the nickel and I turned around an fore I knew it he was on me¨(Lee 205). This evidence shows Mayella is guilty because Tom was helping her with the thing she asked him to do and he didn't jump on her. Mayella also said ¨ He got me around the neck cussin me an sayin´ dirt- I fough´n´hollered but he had me around the neck¨ (Lee 205). This evidence shows Mayella is guilty because Tom is crippled in his left arm and Mayella said she fought back but if she did she could have gotten away because he only has one arm. Mayella again said ¨ Reckon I did, hollered for all I was worth, kicked and hollered loud as I could¨ (Lee 205). This evidence shows Mayella is guilty because again if she had fought back and kicked she could have gotten away and Tom wouldn't have been able to beat her up. Then Atticus asked Mayella ¨ You were screaming all this time?¨ Mayella replied ¨ I certainly was.¨ Atticus then said ¨Then why didn't the other children hear you? Where were they?¨ Mayella never replied back and said nothing back to Atticus. This evidence shows that Mayella didn´t scream as loud as she could because if she did the children would have heard her and they would have checked to see what it was or tell someone they heard a scream coming from the Ewell

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He proceeded to investigate with his own personal biases, thus causing the situation to escalate. These poor investigating skills lead to Mr Tate also being at fault for the eventual death of Tom Robinson. Furthermore, from the trial, Heck Tate said that Mayella was badly beaten up and blames it on Tom. Heck Tate also explains that Mayella fainted at the scene. However, they failed to provide a doctor to examine her health and prove that she was actually raped by Tom Robinson.

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Now, when Tom's testimony happened, he claimed he had been called to help multiple times before. Not only that, Mayella had said, “He got me round the neck, cussin’ me an’ saying dirt- I fought ‘n’ hollered, but he had me round the neck” (Lee 241). Not only that, she later said “He chunked me on the floor an’ choked me ‘nd took advantage of me” (Lee 241). Looking back on this, it was said she had bruises all over her neck, but how could this be if Tom had lost his other arm nearly as he was a child?

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Mr. Finch asked Mr. Tate if he called for a doctor, and Heck Tate said Mayella did not go to the hospital after he found her. Mayella’s father also did not call for a doctor. Secondly, some of their stories don’t line up together, and they had more evidence proving him innocent than guilty. At the end of the trial, it still wasn’t clear what side of Mayella was banged up, two said right, and one said left.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this case is about how Mayella broke her promise to the town of Maycomb Country by lying under oath. She lied because she was embarrassed that she tried to kiss Tom first and she did not want to expose her dad for beating her. Pieces of evidence that show Mayells is guilty are when she says “. . . Papa told me to do it while he was. . .”

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The verdict of the Tom Robinson case helps shine the light on the morality of the Maycomb community members. The Ewell family are seated on the lowest level of the society statues pyramid and rightly so. Bob Ewell punishes Mayella, his daughter, in a violent manner and blames Tom Robinson for raping her; this is an unethical and dirty accusation. “We don’t know, but there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left. We do know in part what Mr. Ewell did:”(Lee 272).

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He ask Mayella what happened first. Her response was that “Tom had raped me and afterwards beat me.” The judge already started to believe her over Tom because of two reasons. One was because she still had bruises on her face ,and the other reason is because Tom is black and Mayella is white.

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Tom Robinson is innocent because there is a lack of solid evidence linking him to the rape of Mayella. During the trial, Mayella claims that she screamed the whole time Tom allegedly took advantage of her; however, when Atticus questions her, she is not able to come up with any probable answers to prove Atticus’ statements wrong. Atticus asks her, “‘Why didn’t the other children hear you?’. . . ‘Or didn’t you scream until you saw your father in the window? You didn’t scream until then, did you?’”, but Mayella always has no answer to his questions (Lee 250-251).

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“All right. He choked you, he hit you, then he raped you, that right? It most certainly is” is another example of evidence (Lee 250). Atticus never asked Mayella how Tom could have done all that with one hand. Atticus didn’t question Mayella’s questions after she answered him and if he did he could have gotten more of her mixing up the truth with the lies.

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No code mattered to her before she broke it. But it came crashing down on her afterwards.” (Lee 231-232). After Mayella kissed Tom everyone found out about it, and Mayella was not supposed to kiss Tom. Therefore Mayella got scared and decided to tell everyone that Tom had raped her.

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She also says “What her papa do to her don’t count” (Doc B) which shows that he’s probably took advantage of her because she can’t physically do anything to stop him. The last quote i got was “There is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left” All these quotes show that Mayella has been beaten by someone they don’t know who but being a female she isn’t as strong as whoever beat her so she can’t defend herself. She won’t say it’s her father but from the circumstantial evidence that whoever beat her was left handed and it couldn’t have been Tom because he can’t use his left hand so the only other suspect left is her father and it makes sense that it could be him because he told her that he would kill her if she didn’t say that Tom raped her because there is evidence to pass that someone has beaten her and her father doesn’t want the truth to come

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She was allowed to cry when she was on the stand being questioned, The text states, “Mayella stared at him and burst into tears. She covered her mouth and sobbed”. Mayella can also refuse to answer asked questions; she is also called miss or ma’am and Tom Robinson is called boy. She is treated with the utmost respect. However, she can't leave her house Because she wouldn’t have anyone to go to and she wouldn’t be able to find a job on her own, as her father sexually abused

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Bob Ewell intimidated Mayella to lie on the witness stand, which led the jury to believe that she was telling the truth. You could tell that Mayella is under the intimidation of her father when she is testifying: “Mayella looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing He sat up straight and waited for her to answer.” (Lee 245). As they were interrogating Mayella, she would constantly look at her father, as if she was waiting for approval. This implies that her father told her what to do and what to say.

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