To Kill A MockingBird Racial prejudice can affect everyone that is involved in it, To Kill A MockingBird is a Novel about racial prejudice in the 1930’s, The Events that had happened in the book was a Young black male was accused of rape. He was accused of rape by a white woman by the name of Mayella Ewell and her family; The Ewells. The Ewells were a very unpopular family in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. They lived in the town dump and had some weird advantages, the kids didn’t have to go to school, and they could hunt out of the hunting season. The man being accused, Tom Robinson, was a neighbor of the Ewells with his wife, his 3 children, his Father, and his Mother. He had a court trial and was being defended by a man named Atticus Finch, Atticus knew that defending Tom was going to be a hard task because of all the racial tension in Maycomb. But he still decided to help Tom. Atticus upon receiving the case the town disliked him for his decision, they were calling him all sorts of names like negro lover, at one point everybody in the town was against his decision. The Father of Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell had assaulted Atticus almost every single day, Atticus’s Kids; Scout and Jem also received shame and harassment in their fathers name, The kids at school …show more content…
Almost everyone in the town was against his thoughts and his opinions, But all this harassment didn’t stop him from defending Tom Robinson which was a good deed in his mind. Whether the people liked it or didn’t like it Atticus wasn’t going to stop defending Tom, and that's what he did. He kept on defending Tom but he sure knew that white people would prevail over his thoughts and his opinions. At the trial Atticus had provided enough evidence That Tom was innocent but they still didn’t win And Tom Robinson died a few days