In a small town in Alabama a white woman is accusing a black man of raping her. It all starts in Maycomb, Alabama were Mayella Ewell accuses Tom Robinson of supposedly raping her. Tom Robinson a african american male, pleads he didn't rape her, he was helping her break furniture, Mayella Ewell a white female says he raped her in her on home, a abandoned negro cabin behind the town's dump. Mayella will be a strong woman and will also be very powerful force.
This case will be taken to court were Atticus Finch will defend Tom Robinson the defendant and Mr. Gilmer will defend Mayella the victim. Mayella’s race gives her a lot of power because in this time people thought whites were more of people than blacks, this was the 1930’s the Jim Crow Laws were still in act which prevented blacks from doing different things the whites could do. Since Mayella is a white woman
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She lives in a terrible house with a lot siblings and a abusing father who drinks all the time, they are very poor. Since they are so low on the scale no one pays any attention to them, the whites have nothing to do with the Ewells because of how low class they are and the blacks don’t like them because of their race. Although Mayella has little schooling she is far from dumb, she is very powerful in multiple ways like even though all she has been through she tries to stay positive. She does not have any proper manners or does not talk properly for example when Atticus is talking to her in court she says “won't answer a word you say long as you keep on mockin’ me”("DBQ Is Mayella Powerful" 17) Atticus replies but she thinks the way he is talking to her is making fun of her, she has never been treated like that. This ties in with class because there is huge difference, Atticus Finch rises his kids with common courtesy and manners, Bob Ewell treats Mayella very badly and raises her with no respect or