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Tom Robinson To Kill A Mockingbird Injustice Analysis

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Tom Robinson represents a mockingbird slain by injustice and racial prejudice. Robinson is a gracious African American unjustly convicted and executed for a crime he did not commit. He was a caring person, concerned for Mayella Ewell’s well-being despite her skin color. Robinson did not make any effort to push Ewell away from her approaches, but decided to flee without harming Ewell in any way. As it was a custom to lynch a black man accused of raping a white woman, the Maycomb folk attempted to lynch Robinson for entertainment. Robinson was left to suffer the wrath of injustice. The jurors decided that he was guilty despite of his innocence. It was stated in the constitution that “when it’s a white man’s word over the black man’s word, the
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