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How Does Tom Robinson Represent The Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson represents the mockingbird because he is killed for just trying to live his life. In the trial where a white woman, Mayella Ewell, accused a black man, Tom Robinson, of rape, Tom Robinson is found guilty, although it seems to be clear that he did not do it. He then gets sentenced to death and while he waits for the death penalty, put into jail. Escaping seemed like the only chance he had of survival, but when he tried, the guards caught him and shot him to death. After Atticus found out the news he told his family, “Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much” (Lee 239). When Atticus tells his family the news, everyone is surprised by the number of shots the guards
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