How Does Mayella Ewell Influence Society

Edgar Watson Howe said “Those who are actually in society, are not as ridiculous as those who are trying to get in”. The way that society shapes and influence people is by forcing them to think that they have to live up to what society thinks they should be which leads people to do dumb things in order to survive in this society. Society shaped Victoria and Ruby to be victims then turned them into accusers to protect themselves, just like fictional character Mayella did.

The way society shaped real life person Victoria price and fictional character Mayella Ewell was by being a white family in a black neighborhood they were already shunned by society in which they wanted to be accepted. They both grew up in broken homes with only one parent

Ruby was a seventeen-year-old white girl that was a good girl who was easily manipulated due to her lack of knowledge of the real world she lived in a black neighborhood with her mother, three younger siblings, and a part time father. Mayella was demined an accuser when she accused a black man, Tom Robinson, from To Kill a Mockingbird of raping and beating her up in her house, which didn’t happen, it was actually her father who beat her up because she came on to the black man, Tom, and he didn’t like it so he beat her and chocked her then called over the sheriff and told him that his daughter had been raped and beat by a black man that she accused simply to get attention that she had never had before and to get revenge on tom for leaving her with her abusive father that she was to scared of to go

Near the end of the trials Ruby did realized what she was doing was wrong and decided to get up on the podium and speck the truth but by time she had realized she was in the wrong the boys had already been in prison for approximately three to five years and she had already lied twice on the podium so the judge and the jury could not take her verdict in to consideration. In the fiction, the trial is put to an end because Tom Robinson attempted to escape prison and ended up getting shot multiple times for it, while in the non-fiction the boys spent the trials in jail and three of them got sentence to a long time in jail while the others were let free due to being so