How Does Tom Robinson Make A Dialectical Journal For To Kill A Mockingbird

14. In the courthouse, the colored section ran along the entire three walls of the courthouse, the jury sat to the left, under the long windows, the circuit solicitor and Atticus sat at the tables with the backs faced towards the children. The railing separated the spectators and the witnesses in the court; the witnesses sit with their backs toward Scout and Jem in cowhide bottom chairs, and Judge Taylor sat on the bench. It is significant where Scout and Jem sit because sitting in the colored section allowed them to see everything that was going on and it made them see the trail from a colored person’s perspective, where both races should be treated equally. By seeing the trial from a colored person’s perspective, they recall that life is

Ewell, her father bought a chifforobe to chop up, then Tom Robinson came by and she gave him a nickel for busting up the chifforobe. Mayella went in the house to get a nickel for him. Before she knew it, he was on her, cussing her out, and hit her, chocked her, and beat her several times. She also claims she screamed and fought back when she could, but that he took “full advantage” of her and “he done what he was after.” In Tom Robinson’s testimony, he says he passed Mayella’s house going to and from the field every day, and sometimes she would have work that needed to be done that he would do with no charge. Tom Robinson claims he never went on their property without an invitation and that he did work for out of goodness from his heart. He said one evening when he passed by, it was extremely quiet, and she needed some help fixing the door. Tom realized the door was fine and that there was nothing to do for him so he was going to go home. Just as he was about to go home,

When Tom tries to escape, guards tell him to stop, they shoot him and he stops. When Mr. Underwood describes Tom’s death by comparing to “the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children”, it is symbolic because it related to the title of the novel, since to kill Tom Robinson was like ‘killing a mockingbird”. Tom never did any harm, and was an innocent man, who was killed by the guards.
19. One-way Scout changed since the beginning of the novel is she is now able to “climb into his skin and walk around in it”, meaning she can now understand someone from their point of view, so she able to understand a situation from a colored person’s point of view (Chapter 3, Page 39) Another way Scout has changed since the beginning of the book is she understands people have both good and bad qualities that coexist within them, as she becomes closer to an adult and encounters evil in the world.
20. Miss Gates’ lesson to the class about Hitler’s prosecution of Jew’s is ironic, because she herself came out of the courthouse after the trial ended and responded by telling Miss Stephanie Crawford that “it was about time that someone taught them a lesson” when referring to the blacks in the town. It reveals that most people during that time where racist and prejudice to some extent in Maycomb. An example that is similar in our current society portrayed in this chapter is how white males get paid the highest salary, but people of other races and women get paid lower salaries for