Mayella Ewell, the prosecutor, blamed Tom Robinson, the defendant, of rape on the night of November 21, 1935 at Mayella’s home in Maycomb, Alabama. The trial brought up included Tom Robinson, Mayella and Robert Ewell, Heck Tate, and Atticus Finch. Heck Tate and Robert Ewell were the witnesses for Mayella’s side and Atticus was the lawyer to Tom Robinson. This was such an important trial, whether the event actually happened or not, because Tom is a black man and Mayella is a white woman. The evidence provided shows that Tom most likely did not rape or beat Mayella, but her father was the one who could have beat her.
The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the book Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe are two different books surround by the same ideas. To Kill a Mockingbird was a book about a girl named Scott, whose dad, Atticus, is a lawyer, who tried to win a case defending an innocent black man. Atticus did not win the case and Scott started to learn about injustice and what went on at that time in the South. Mississippi Trial, 1955 was about a boy named Hiram, who lived in the South with his grandpa because his parents were too busy working. His grandpa represented the South in the book and Hiram’s dad represented the North, and Hiram had a stronger relationship with his grandpa and did not really like his dad at the time.
Ironically tom would show kindness and compassion to Mayella he would often help her bust up a chifforobe for no charge and for no reason just feeling that it’s the right thing to do. When Tom was on the stand he explained that she would offer him money but Tom would not take it “she said, I reckon I’ll have to give you a nickel wont I? ‘no ma’am there aint no charge” (pg. 191). When Tom would help Mayella he would do it out of the kindness of his heart for no money, this shows how kind Tom is even thought he is poor he still turns down money from Mayella.
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.
In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children
The game that the children created in Chapter 4 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, shows how the children are picking up on the ignorant words the adults are saying about the Radleys and whether they are acknowledging it or not, the children know the game is wrong. For example, in the book, it says, “When Mr. Nathan Radley passed us on his daily trip to town, we would stand still and silent until he was out of sight, then wonder what he would do to us if he suspected” (Lee 53). When the children stop playing the game, it shows that they know they shouldn’t be playing it and that it’s wrong because they don’t actually know the Radleys. This leads into how ignorance is affecting the world. People are being prejudice towards others without
In 1589, Peter Stubbe made a deal with the Devil. In Bedburg, a small town near Cologne, Germany, animals began to be mutilated in the night. Soon after, children and grown men and women began to disappear, later found mauled beyond recognition. The townspeople suspected a rogue wolf and eventually a group of men corned the creature. But what they found was not a beast, but a man ––one of their own–– named Peter Stubbe, a well liked and well respected farmer.
In the start of chapter 11 we know Mrs.dubose to be a cantankerous and mean spirited old lady that always shouts at Scout and Jem when they walk by, later in the chapter we realize she is much more than that through the actions of Jem reading to her. Jem was put in this predicament as punishment for destroying Mrs.Dubose’s camellia bushes with a baton after she said Atticus is not any better than the “niggers and trash he works for,”. Atticus says Jem has to apologize, clean up her yard,and read to her for a month,Scout joins him and they both face her abuse and strange fits that happen at the end of every session. These sessions would get longer each day. A month after Jem's punishment ended Mrs.Dubose died, Atticus reveals to Jem that she
In the passage Jem and Scout walk home during the dark hours,giving Bob Ewell an opportunity to stage an attack. As Bob Ewell attacks them Boo Radley rushes in to rescue Jem and Scout. After this Scout now understands what Atticus meant it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The killing of a mockingbird is much like killing the innocent. It is beyond a crime and worse than the most heinous atrocities.
At the end of the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Bob Ewell comes after Jem and Scout and attempts to kill them. In the midst of the attack Boo Radley comes to their rescue and kills Bob Ewell. When the sheriff of Maycomb, Heck Tate, inspects the crime scene he can tell Boo killed Mr. Ewell. Instead of telling everyone the truth he makes the decision to tell the town that Mr. Ewell fell on his knife and killed himself. He does this because he knows that if he tells the truth, their will have to be a trial and that Boo wouldn’t be able to handle all the trauma of being in the spotlight.
Tom Robinson is accused by Bob Ewell and Mayella for raping and harassing Mayella. Atticus ends up defending Tom in the trial. Atticus knows that Tom is innocent, but it is going to be a tough trial because the word of a black man can not be trusted. Although it may not be true that Tom harassed Mayella, it is still just that they put him on trial to give everyone an equal chance at defending his or her side of the story.
The reader know that they jury was influenced by prejudice when they made their decision. There’s two reason why the jury was influenced by prejudice their decisions. The first reason I know the jury was influenced by prejudice was Bob Ewell. When Atticus grabs paper and pen out of his coat, he gave it to Ewell. Ewell begin to write his name with his left handed on the paper, Atticus and Judge Taylor looking at him intently.
To kill a mockingbird is named that because most of the characters are like mocking birds, people who are innocent and who have done nothing wrong in life yet they pay for most of the damage, but the big part of the theme is judging. In most of the story Scout and Jem judge their neighbour Boo Radly, and in another part of the story the town judges this black man on if he raped this young woman all because he is colored. Many people people in this story have confronted evil and don't really know at first, for example Tom Robinson he was with this known, young woman, and when his father caught them together she came up with the first thing she saw and that was his coulored skin, which is immediately judging. He was a good friend to her but
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there is an incident in which the Finch children's father, Atticus, shoots a mad dog. This incident teaches the children not to judge a book by its cover. At the beginning of the chapter, Scout, the main character, describes her father Atticus as 'feeble'. She expresses her wish that Atticus had some kind of talent or skill that she could talk about at school. She complains and she thinks that there is nothing special about him.
Both novels, To Kill a Mockingbird and Bless me Ultima are novels that define justice in a variety of ways.. It is explained throughout the novels as an act of revenge which is an act of inflicting hurt on someone because of something they may did to you. Many may believe that revenge is an act of justice because both parties are left equal after the fact. But, in the end, justice was not achieved within the novels. In Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird a trial takes place between Tom Robinson, a poor colored man accused of assaulting a woman and the Ewells family.
