How Is Tom Robinson Innocent

African Americans were loved by most and welcomed into their household, but they were also still resented and hated by some. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson was resented and falsely accused by the people in the community of doing a hateful crime. Tom Robinson is a colored man in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Society at that time did not treat people like him fondly. Some people in his community hated colored people and wanted to get rid of all of them. Other people loved them, treated them kindly, became friends with them, and welcomed them into their homes. Nonetheless, out of those kind people, it did not weigh the fact that Tom Robinson was still treated unfairly by his community and was falsely accused of

Tom Robinson is a colored man living down the street from Bob along with some other colored people too. Bob is disturbed by that and he doesn't want them to live by him anymore and will try anything to get them to leave. These people have done no harm to him, but he still does not like them. When he found his daughter after being raped. He did not ask who had done it, he in fact just said. “I knowed who it was, all right, lived down yonder in that -nest, passed the house every day…. they’re dangerous to live around ‘sides devaluin’ my property”(Lee 199). Implying that it was Tom Robinson that had done it, without any evidence or proof. But it was not just Bob Ewell that hated him, it was also the people of Maycomb. They didn’t just hate him but also the people that thought he was not

Mayella never admitted to the fact of liking Tom Robinson, in spite of that, society's norms never held her feelings back. “She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man… No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterward”(Lee 231-232). Furthermore, because those codes did not matter to her - she kissed him, and some bad things happened. She was caught in the act but needed a way to make the roles reversed. Also, she needed him away knowing that she would do it again. “She did something that every child has done- she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim- of necessity she must put him away from her- he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense”(Lee 231). So putting him away met accusing him of rape and having him sent off to prison. She knew that this would work because the community of Maycomb did not like people like