Was Tom Robinson Guilty In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Did Tom Robinson really guilty because he raped Miss Mayella Ewell, People might say he is innocent and has nothing to do with her, but I do believe that Tom Robinson is a guy who really committed a crime. As we know about a rape case happened in small town named Maycomb which is located in Alabama and in 1930’s, at this moment in America is having a racism and segregation between white people and black people. Economy and society problem are the biggest issues for everyone who lived in America, both for African- American and White American. People had been unemployed then it was hard to earn a job and money.
From this point, we can see many troubles happen in this decade. America’s murder rate of this decade was the highest ever, two main …show more content…

Uh, there's this old chifforobe in the yard, and I-I said, 'You come in here, boy, and bust up this chifforobe, and I'll give you a nickel.' So he-he come on in the yard and I go in the house to get him the nickel and I turn around, and 'fore I know it, he's on me, and I fought and hollered, but he had me around the neck, and he hit me again and again, and the next thing I knew, Papa was in the room, a-standin' over me, hollerin', 'Who done it, who done it?'. That is what Mayella told everyone in the court; including Atticus. Seem Atticus is still not believing her words and he keep asking and pressuring her when she become silence until she say “I got somethin' to say. And then I ain't gonna say no more. He took advantage of me. An' if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain't gonna do nothin' about it, then you're just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin' cowards, the - the whole bunch of ya, and your fancy airs don't come to nothin'. Your Ma'am'in' and your Miss Mayellarin' - it don't come to nothin', Mr. Finch, not... no.” These quote shows that Mayella spoke the truth, because her father is saying the same thing; "I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my …show more content…

From his testimony, he said he was on the way home from working and Mayella called him to fix a door. When he got inside, it is nothing wrong with a door then Mayella asked him to take a box down from on top of the chiffarobe and his leg grabbed by Mayella. He falls down and Mayella hugged and kissed him, he try to escape then he heard Mayella’s father yell at her. Tom says he ran away from the house and neither hurt or rapes