How Does Mayella Conform To Society

Facing reality is like seeing a delicious cake, finally taking a bite out of it, and realizing it tastes like cardboard. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the harsh reality is, people lie. “No I don’t recollect if he hit me. I mean yes I do, he hit me” (Lee 245). Under oath, Mayella knows what she says and doesn’t say affects the outcome of the trial. She understands she must say what is needed in order to sway the jury in her favor, even if that means lying under oath. By her own volition Mayella averts the attention from her fallacious testimony, and onto Tom Robinson, a black man. By doing this, Mayella is unknowingly signing Tom’s death sentence. In any other situation, it’s man’s word against a woman's, in this case it’s a black man against a white women.

Robinson, because of being black, is undoubtedly handed the short end of the stick. “...man’s commonest weakness, his aversion to being unpleasantly conspicuous, pointed at, shunned, as being on the unpopular side” (Article 1). When being on the “unpopular side” it is evident how differently individuals are treated and how certain measures will be taken to conform to society’s norm. Certain measures, pertaining to the act of discriminating others that are not deemed worthy. Being out of the ordinary in any shape or form isn’t what is considered the norm and many face the abrasive treatment because of this. Racism is apart of this abrasive treatment and is mainly directed towards blacks in the 1920ś. Being apart of the black population means facing the judgmental ways of others solely based on the color of their skin. When finally facing the reality, that yes people lie and people aren’t treated as they should, innocence is