Examples Of Mayella Ewell Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

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). Bob Ewells files a case on Tom Robinson, a black man, for raping nineteen-year-old Mayella Ewell, claiming that Tom had raped Mayella and severely beaten Mayella on the right side. Atticus points

Is in perfect condition to beat Mayella using the dominant left side of the body. Having seen Bob seduce Tom and giving her a gruesome beating the only way to save oneself is to blame a low-class black man. Bob is a man of low morality and ethics, having taken an innocent man and setting up to destroy this man’s life solely to be not classified as an unethical moran and not having raised the children properly; which is not the case as by framing this innocent man he is proving thyself as unethical. Despite getting to know the truth of the case the white male jury still had the nerve to rule Tom guilt with the charges of Tom raping and beating Mayella. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying resentment to the jury box.”(Lee 295).The most unethical actions taken in the court is the jury ruling Tom guilty in the charges of rape and assault, despite knowing the truth of the

Which is exactly what the jury had not done, the case is evaluated based not on facts but on the sheer base of the colour of the skin on the victim and the defendant. Atticus has proven that Mayella tempted a man of colour for which Bob had severely punished Mayella. But in the Maycomb society, the words of a black or a man of colour are overruled by that of a white man. There is no universal moral that states for a human being to feel superior to another simply because the colour of the skin is pale white like that of a ghost; so for the Maycomb community to think that such decisions are ethical and morally correct is trash. It is not morally correct for these white men to sit in a jury and make decisions based on personal basis or resentment. Jem’s perfect picture of the Maycomb society has crumbled into piece after watching the Tom Robinson case. “His face was streaked in angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain’t right,’ he muttered,”(Lee