power is the ability to have complete power over someone elses lives as well as your own.In the story “to kill a mockingbird”,tom robinson is convicted for a crime he diddnt commit- rape.The alleged victim is Mayella Ewell.Tom Robinson was blamed for this heinous crime for two main reasons; he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,and because he was black.Mayella ,a poor -class white woman who lives whith her dad and several siblings.with Mayellas father being a drunk;the Ewells have been known for their troublemaking.what makes Mayella have power over Tom Robinson?is it class?gender?race maybe?although Mayella is powerless when it comes to class and gender,her race ultimately makes her powerful.
Mayella's family,the Ewells live behind the Maycomb county dump. their yard was a vapid,bare spot enclosed in a “fence” of old trash and metal ,in the yard is just as bad trash lay everywhere.but something caught the eye of everyone who passed the garbage -house, was the bright red geraniums.they looked as if someone had took very good care of them
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this plays a very big part in this novel.if you weren't white ,you literally had no power whatsoever.this helps Mayella in the court case. the jury(all white males)were more likely to believe her story more than Tom Robinson's.even though it was obvious that Mayella's father was the one that beat up Mayella they still found Tom Robinson guilty.They thought that it was a ludicrous idea that Tom would be innocent. Mayella got hit on the right eye,which means that a left -handed person must have hit her.but Tom Robinson's whole left arm is severely crippled ,it got caught in a cotton gin and it crushed his left arm ,shoulder,and hand. Tom can't even feel his arm let alone hold it up. mr.ewell,on the other hand, is left -handed and his arm is perfectly fine,fine enough to fracture a skull.but the jury still found tom guilty just because the that he is