To Kill a Mockingbird is a roller coaster of a story in the perspective of a young girl named Scout Finch. The main conflict in this story is the trial between Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Tom pleaded guilty, he then was shot and died. Racism plays a big part in this book and that is one of the reasons that Mayella accused Tom. This trial showed a lot about Mayella 's character. It showed that Mayella needs sympathy. She doesn’t not get treated well by her father. Bob Ewell has beaten Mayella and he still does. She has grown up in a with a very coarse and rough life. Her whole family is poor and uneducated, they don’t know simple skills that you learn in school. She was forced into going into court against Tom Robinson for a rape that never happened. Even though she did a horrible thing, accusing an innocent man of rape and getting him killed, she did it because she was scared. Mayella Ewell deserves to have some sympathy, she is beaten, she is poor, she was compelled to lie about Tom because of her father. Bob Ewell is a very horrible and grungy man. He beats his kids, especially Mayella. There …show more content…
Everybody in their town knows that the Ewell family is like, they are dirty, poor, raunchy, and unkempt. They live by a dump and in the book it was talking about their house and it said, “four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone… merely open spaces in the walls… greasy strips of cheesecloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb’s refuse." This is an example of how bad of a life Mayella has had. The majority of the people in this time period were poor but the Ewells were at the very bottom of this system. All of these reasons show why Mayella would be so desperate for attention that she would kiss and try to get Tom to like her and then accuse him of