Tom Robinson Trial

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is summed up in three different parts. Part one is just an overview of everything in Maycomb County. Part two is the trial of Tom Robinson. Lastly, part three shows what happened after the trial. To Kill a Mockingbird is in a made up county in Alabama during the Great Depression. The novel itself is narrated by a little girl named Jean Louis Finch, who is also the main character and goes by “Scout”. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, is a layer with very high moral standards for Maycomb County’s community. Her brother, Jem Finch and their best friend Dill are very interested by a local man and all the rumors about him, Boo Radley is his name. Boo lives right in their neighborhood but he supposedly never leaves his house. One of the rumors that

The trial takes up the majority of pages, because it allows Lee to go into depth and explore the characters situations. Bob and Mayella Ewell are the main characters involved in the trial, because they are the ones trying to get Tom Robinson sentenced to death. Atticus Finch takes it upon himself to defend Tom Robinson, he only takes cases when he knows the person being tried is innocent, and Atticus and his family takes a lot of criticism for this. At one point in the novel one kid called Scout and Jem “Nigger lovers” (Lee 107). Despite this, Atticus still wants to reveal the truth to the townspeople, expose their racism, and get them to imagine the possibility of being equal with one another. As the trial being Bob and Mayella try to get the judge to convict Tom for rape. As the trail continues it is visible that the evidence is not nearly enough to convict Tom. At the crucial point of the trial the jury announces that Tom Robinson is guilty of rape and is sentenced to prison. Tom latter tries to escape and is shot and killed on the spot. The trail reveals a great deal about the racism that is surrounding Maycomb