Makenna Anderson Mrs. Lawson English 10 11 January 2023 Title Being a girl can be troublesome because you feel like you have to please your parents instead of saying truthful words. To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee shows that girls and women were not treated well. This book is based on the time of The Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama. In the book, a black guy named Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman named Mayella. Mayella Ewell is a girl who is in one of the low-standard families, which they call her family the trashiest family. Bob Ewell is Mayella’s father. Bob is known for always being drunk and never home. When Mayella was being questioned, she looked at her father for any questions that were about him. Only Atticus knew that Mayella’s father was abusive. He knew Mayella was lying just to protect her father. Mayella did not want her father to do anything worse to her, causing her to blame it on Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson, is guilty of assaulting a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Everyone in that court knew that they made the decision based on the color Tom’s skin …show more content…
Mayella never answered the questions Atticus was asking her with complete responses. She was always looking at her father but one question she did not. When Atticus asked, “Does he ever go after you? How you mean? When he’s-riled has he ever beaten you? Mayella looked around, down at the court reporter, up at the judge. Answer the question, Miss Mayella, said Judge Taylor. My paw’s never touched a hair o’ my head in my life, she declared firmly. He never touched me” (Lee 209). That one question that Atticus asked about if her father touched her, Mayella did not look at her father. That shows that Mayella was not telling the truth and was protecting her father at that moment. Mayella cares about her father even though he beats her, so she lies and covers him in