To Kill A Mockingbird
In the critically acclaimed novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, it is set in the Great Depression time and a time of extreme racism in the South; a Man named Tom Robinson is convicted of the rape of Mayella Ewell. With that to show, Tom Robinson is innocent because of certain evidence from the novel. In the first place, Tom is black. He would have helped a white woman with whatever she needed to because that’s what he did. When he is in court he states to the “Naw suh, another one,Most as tall as the room. So I done what she told me, an’ I was just reachin’ when the next thing I knows she-she’d grabbed me round th’ legs, grabbed me round th’ legs, Mr. Finch she scared me so bad I hoped down an’ turned the chair over that was the only thing, only furniture, stored in that room, Mr. Finch, when I left it, I swear ‘fore God” (pg. 259). When Tom states this, everyone had already heard Mayella’s response but it was completely different because this is not what Mayella said. Also, clues from the evidence make
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When Scout sees Tom stand up, she noticed that his left arm is shorter than the other arm. She asks Reverend Sykes to tell her what is wrong with his arm; so he explains “He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s cotton gin when he was a boy…like to bled to death...tore all the muscles loose from his bones-” (pg. 249). By saying this, he is right handed and the evidence brought up says that he choked her with both hands. However, this is very odd because he is right handed and it would be almost impossible to choke someone with one hand completely. Except he does have a lot of strength and could’ve killed Mayella if he wanted to. And Bob Ewell is left handed and he could have abused Mayella which happens to be true but this era is set in a time where black people were considered bad and they go straight to jail with no