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How Does Tom Robinson Have Power In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Power is having control over something or someone's life, if you had power would you use it in a good or bad way? In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird” Mayella a white girl and a black man named Tom Robinson went to trial because Mayella said he raped her. After the trial was done Tom was sentenced to jail and found guilty because of Mayella’s power she had. What made this worse was that Tom was black so it would have been arduous for him to win the case. Although she was powerful when it came to class and gender her race made her most powerful. In Conclusion to this Mayella did not have as much power when it came to her class level, because her family was very poor and people often called them trash. As in result to this document A
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