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The book “To Kill A Mockingbird” was written by “Harper Lee”. In this book there are families that live in Macomb County with the neighbors within the County making judgements on each family, besides a man named “Atticus Finch”, which he is a lawyer. Atticus had two children, a girl named Scout or Jean Louise Finch, and a boy named Jem or Jeremy Atticus Finch. So there is a trial going on and Atticus was chosen to defend an African American, which everyone is disliking him for, because he is going to actually try to defend him. The man he is defending is named “Tom Robinson” and he is on trial for being accused of rape by Mr.Ewell. So my claim is that Tom Robinson in not guilty given the evidence by both sides First off, Mayella, …show more content…

It was obvious that he knows better to do what he was convicted of doing, and his left arm was useless. Tom said that he has been in trouble with the law before. He had once received thirty days for disorderly conduct because he got in a fight using self defence against a person who was going to cut him, which he did succeed in his left shoulder. Tom is the nicest man in this whole entire book, To Kill a Mockingbird which was written by Harper Lee. Tom wasn’t ever caught up in any lie and wasn’t hesitant to answer the questions he was asked. It seemed that he didn’t have anything to hide, he was a open book. His story didn’t add up to mayella’s story that she told. In his side of the story mayella was trying to seduce him into loving her, which he didn’t. Then he ran for his life because he was scared of what she was trying to do and what her father thought what happened. In Mayella’s story he was the one trying to rape her, and she was thrown to the ground and was pinned to the floor, she also claimed that she was hit in the face by Tom and had bruises all over her. Which in my opinion would be really hard for a guy with one arm, that he could use, could do all of

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