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Heck Tate Close Read Essay At the end of To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and published in 1960 shows us Mr. Tate and Atticus discussing the incident that occurred earlier that day. Three things were discussed during their conversation. One of them being Mr. Tate wanted justice for Tom Robinson, despite him getting Tom Robinson’s trial started. Eventually leading to his death, he lies about the real reasoning behind Heck Tate’s death. Before the Tom Robinson trial Heck Tate arrests Tom Robinson when Mr. Ewell accused him of raping Mayela. Despite the lack of evidence Mr. Tate continues to arrest Tom robinson. The trial eventually leads him to jail and TR was killed when he supposedly ran for a fence to attempt an escape. While …show more content…

Finch. Let the dead bury the dead.” Mr. Tate did not want to get involved in this case because it would be a risk for him to take a black man's side against a white woman. However when Mr. Tate learned more about this case, he became convinced TR was innocent and Mr. Ewell was lying about what occurred to Mayela. After TR was killed, Mr. Tate desired justice for him. He then tells Atticus he is going to lie to the county about the cause of death for Mr. Ewell. He wanted equity of treatment for TR. The second thing that Atticus and Mr. Tate discussed was protecting Boo Radley. While Mr. Tate is talking, he brings up the situation that transpired between Scout, Jem, and Mr. Ewell, and how he wants to protect the quiet life of Boo Radley. While Scout and Jem are heading home after a Halloween pageant, they get attacked by Mr. Ewell. Suddenly Boo radley saves Scout and jem and brings them back home. When Mr. Tate arrives he discusses with Atticus about what will happen to Boo Radley. “Maybe you’ll say it’s my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up. Know what’d happen then? All the ladies in Maycomb includin‘ my wife’d be knocking on his door bringing angel food cakes.” Mr. Tate lying to the county for Boo Radley shows the acts he would do to protect Boo

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Jem heard some noises as they were walking home and got very scared. At first they both thought that it was just Scout’s dress rustling but they realized someone was chasing them. After escaping the “kidnapper” Scout and Jem ran inside and called the town sheriff Heck Tate. Heck Tate arrived and shortly after he arrived, they found Bob Ewell with a kitchen knife in his chest lying dead on a tree. Boo Radley then knocked on the Finch’s door as he went out of his house for the first time in 20 years.

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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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Meanwhile, Scout and her brother Jem are interested in seeing Boo Radley, a man who has been rumored to had murdered his own father. On the other hand, the children’s father Atticus, a lawyer, takes on the case of Tom Robinson- a black man accused of raping Mayella Ewell. After Tom was declared guilty,a humiliated Bob Ewell tries to murders the Finch children for revenge, only for Boo Radley to save the children. Scout then looks at Boo, realizing to look from another person’s perspective.

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A fact showing that Heck Tate was doing poor investigation was he never called a doctor when he showed up at the scene. Another fact about how Heck Tate investigated poorly is Tate confirmed it was Mayella's right eye that had a bruise on it so that means Tom Robinson would have to use his left arm, but he couldn't because he got it caught in a cotton

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Naturally, Tom would be seen as the guilty party in this situation, but here’s why he isn’t. Mayella Ewell, the so-called victim, Heck Tate, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson all had different accounts on what happened on the twenty-first day of November. Heck Tate, the sheriff of Maycomb County, took the stand first in this trial. Heck was dressed formally in a suit and tie. However, when Mr. Gilmer and Atticus Finch approached him to question him, he became nervous and stiff.

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Titus Smith Mrs. Lawson English 10 11 January 2023 Who is to blame? Mayella Ewell had no evidence to prove Tom was guilty, but on Tom's side, there was specific evidence that proves he is innocent. The story of, ¨To Kill a Mocking Bird¨ by Harper Lee, is about a little girl living through the experiences of a court case between a local family daughter Mayella Ewell, and a black man Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was accused by Mayella of rape when he came to the Ewell house to help her. Mayella invited Tom inside to help her and considering Tom Robinson was a black man, the community already did not treat him well.

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Because of this, many of the less prejudiced people in Maycomb, including Heck Tate and Atticus, felt that Bob Ewell had in essence, murdered Tom Robinson. Thus, when Bob is killed by Boo Radley out of defence for the Finch children, Tate insists that

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and she said he did. Sheriff Tate went to Tom Robinsons home and brought him back to the Ewells, and Mayella identified him as the man who assaulted her, so Mr. Tate brought him to the

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, “Boo” Arthur Radley, a white man who’s elegied “teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (16) is held equal to Tom Robinson, a black man, in the eyes of the residence of a small, impoverished, Depression struck, county named Maycomb in northern Alabama. However, when a corrupted, controversial lie of elegid rape, shoves Tom Robinson into the limelight, all that we can do is watch as he gets torn apart, all on the fault of Sheriff Tate, who lied on the stand, ultimately killing Tom Robinson. Tate knows this and when “Boo” Radley saves Jem and Scouts lives, by killing Bob Ewell, the man Tate defended on stand, Tate takes it upon himself to try to undo the evil he has committed

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The audience watches as the witnesses come to stand and listen to every detail very vigilantly. As Heck Tate articulates his side, he states, “found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in the corner and said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson”

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Heck Tate, Maycomb’s sheriff, is a good guy, who’s job is to maintain law and order inside the town. Being the sheriff, it is his job to follow the evidence and trace it back. When Miss Mayella Ewell is “abused” by a strong black man, she says that the attacker was Tom Robinson. “So I went down to Robinson’s house and brought him back. She identified him as the one, so I took him in.

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Heck Tate decides to give the Tom Robinson case to Atticus because he believes that although he might not win it, the jury will actually think about the case before deciding their verdict. Atticus accepts the case because he felt as though he “couldn 't hold up [his] head in town” and that he “couldn 't represent [the] country in the legislature” (Lee 100). He acceptes the case to prove he is reliability. Another example of Atticus showing how reliable he is is when he is interrogating Mayella. She feels as though he is making fun of her.

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However, Heck Tate defends his actions by telling Atticus that it was his decision and responsibility to deal with Bob Ewell’s case. Heck Tate also says that because Tom Robinson died for no reason and Bob Ewell was responsible for his death, Mr. Robinson’s death led to Bob Ewell’s death. Heck Tate says to Atticus, “There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch” (369). Heck Tate says “let the dead bury the dead” to Mr. Finch because he doesn't feel any pity towards Bob Ewell after his cowardly actions of attempting to kill Scout and Jem.

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Since Mr. Radley never came out of the house, frightening rumors spread about him and the children all knew them. They even played games where they reenacted the story that was spread around about him, not realizing how disgraceful it was to the Radleys. Towards the end the book, Scout finally get to meet Boo Radley after Bob Ewell attempted to kill her and Jem. Scout took Mr. Radley home and on the way back she thought, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

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Sheriff Tate’s actions do represent the ideas in the Gettysburg Address because it states that laws are to be made and enforced by the people and for the the people and this is exactly what Heck Tate did that Halloween night. He lied for the greater good of the people involved, Boo Radley. He didn’t do it in self defense, but in defense of others which would not evolve into any charges after he can prove that it was truly in defense of others. Heck Tate knew that Boo Radley did not kill Bob out of cruelty, but to protect Jem and Scout. Therefore, he did not want to put a quiet, reserved, innocent man in the public eye and put him as well as Scout through a difficult trial.

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