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Tom Robinson's Decision In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee, she tells a tragic story about a noble lawyer who takes the case of an innocent black man. In this story the individuals had to face difficult decisions, where they had to make the right or wrong choices and if they wanted to please themselves or the society. Atticus had to choose between the white community to please society or the black community to please himself; he made the right choice.

Atticus made the decision to help Tom Robison, whom he was accused of raping and beating Mayella by taking Tom 's case to court and prove the he was innocent to everything he was accused for. This was shown when Atticus said, "The main one is, if I didn 't I couldn 't hold my head in town, I couldn …show more content…

This is untrue because Reverend Sykes whispers to Jem and tells him "He got it caught in a cotton gin, caught it in Mr. Dolphus Raymond 's cotton gin when he was a boy . . like to bled to death . . tore all the muscles loose from his bones" (Lee 186). This is important because it says that Tom got his left hand caught in the gin and now it 's misshapen, this also says Mayella the one who accused Tom of raping her and using his left hand to hit her aggressively as she says so. It 's clear that if anyone in the court room tried to go against Tom Robinson and how he did rape Mayella, would be untrue due to all the muscles from his left arm torn apart from his hand.

Atticus choose the black community over the white community to please himself and he has made the right decision in doing so. Even though Atticus would get insulted, threatened not only to him but the ones he cared for which were family and friends he still fought for Tom 's innocence and to prove he was a gentleman and not a rapist. Choosing this position as to picking Atticus as the real mockingbird from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was easy because he was the only man, judge who would take Tom 's case without thinking it twice. Therefore, Atticus was the one only to

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