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Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Robinson accused of raping a white woman, the residents of Maycomb are mad that Atticus would help him. The town of Maycomb suddenly turns against the Finches. Alexandra and her grandson condemn his decision to defend Tom. Alexandra’s portrayal is mostly negative. Atticus tells his children to avoid getting in fights, even if they are verbally attacked. When he gives Jem and Scout toy guns as presents, he tells them that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Chapter 12-16
At the start of Chapter 12, Jem has turned twelve years old, and he continues to grow farther apart from Scout. Scout begins to look forward to Dill's return that summer, however, she is disappointed when she receives a letter from him saying that he will be staying with his …show more content…

Heck Tate tells his account of what happened on November 21st. Then Mr. Ewell gives his account. Heck Tate said Mayella’s right eye was bruised Atticus asks Mr. Ewell what hand he writes with. He is left handed, it is suggested that Mr. Ewell could have easily held down Mayella and beat her right side with his left hand.n this chapter, Mayella tells the jury what her version of what happened on November 21st.Mayella is then asked to recite what happened that night. She said she asked Tom Robinson to bust up a chiffarobe but as she was turning around, he grabbed her and took advantage of her. However since Tom’s left arm is crippled and Mayella was beat up on her right side, it wouldn’t make much sense that Tom beat her up.Tom Robinson gives his account of what happened that night. His story is rather surprising. He says that Mayella wanted him to fix a door. When he couldn’t find a door to fix, Mayella jumped and hugged him and told him to kiss her. While Scout and Dill leave the courtroom, they run into Mr. Raymond. He offers a drink to Dill. Scout, thinking the drink is whiskey, warns Dill not to drink anymore. However, Dill reveals that the drink is actually …show more content…

Puzzled, Scout asks why Mr. Raymond pretends to be drinking alcohol.Jem is heartbroken that they lost the case. The verdict was obviously unfair. Atticus agrees and explains that when there is a white man against a black man, the white man always wins. The African Miss Stephanie exclaims that as Atticus walked into town he ran into Bob Ewell, who spat at him, called him names, and threatened to kill him.Scout wants to invite Walter Cunningham to her house. However, Aunt Alexandra does not permit this. Scout bursts into tears as Jem describes how there are different people in this world who look down at other people. Jem finally concludes that the world is filled with so much negativity that Boo Radley stays inside all the time because he wants to stay

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In To Kill a Mockingbird by harper Lee, despite of him having a public trial, Tom Robinson, an innocent man was proven guilty, also his trial that was completely and utterly unfair, one-sided, and even discriminatory. This novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, a made up town. Robinson was working for the Ewell’s and one day Tom was invited into the house to fix a door. Tom Robinson was accused of raping and abusing a white woman, Mayella Ewell, when her father is the one who abused her. The jury had a lack of evidence to prove that Tom was guilty, and also ignored the evidence that proves his innocence.

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First, Tom is later shown in trial to be trustworthy and not have anything to hide. Second, Bob is well known to be an alcoholic and abusive person, meaning that he likely beat Mayella himself out of anger. It would explain why he does not call for a doctor, and this cemented by the fact that he does not take enough care of his kids. Third, Bob claims that Tom beat Mayella face on the right side, but Tom's left arm was unusable from when it was caught in a cotton

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EVIDENCE Atticus said ¨Did you call a doctor sir? Anybody call a doctor¨ ¨No sir¨ said, Mr. Tate (Lee 190). This piece of evidence shows that Heck Tate did not investigate right because if he did then he would have called a doctor for Mayella's bruises. Sheriff Heck Tate says,¨

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He said that “she was beaten around the head” and there were “bruises on her arms”. Also, there were visible finger marks on Mayella’s gullet and her left eye was bruised. According to Mayella, she was certain that Tom had raped her. Mayella said that she was standing on the front porch of her house when Tom walked by, she sought his help to chop down an old chiffarobe as she was “not strong enough”.

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In TKAM justice is not applied equally, especially regarding white and non-white, and adult and child. With white and non-white one of the main reasons Tom Robinson goes to court for rape is because that he is a black man testifying against a white family. Even though the evidence obviously points to Mayella trying to kiss Tom Robinson, Robinson is still considered guilty because of his ethnicity. This is extremely unfair and biased because he is obviously innocent, and being persecuted for no reason other than the fact that the judge and people in the town are racist. With adult and child, Atticus tries to keep his children from the court.

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This became a big deal in town and Jem and Scout were being bullied by their dad defending Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson had to testify against Bob Ewell and Mayella Ewell in the case. Scout narrates, “He was pounding the balcony rail softly, and once he whispered, ‘We’ve got him.’ (Lee 178). This shows that Jem is confident that Atticus is going to with the case because Bob Ewell had to show that he could write and he wrote with his left hand and Mayella Ewell was beaten up on the right side of her body, which means someone who leads

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Mayella replied that there was, and told him to step on a chair to get a box from the top of a chifforobe. He did as she said, and got up onto the chair. He claimed she grabbed him around the legs, scared him so hard that he hopped down from the chair, and jumped on him. Robinson’s lawyer asked him if she jumped on him violently. Robinson denied it, and told him that she hadn’t.

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Even though Tom Robinson was innocent, Bob Ewell, who was white, still won the case. This hit the Finch’s hard because even though they hated the racial discrimination occurring, there was nothing more that Atticus could do to change the ways of Maycomb. While all of this was going on, Scout’s perspective shifted more to her father's beliefs instead of joining the mainstream cowardness of her

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Then some people thought that Tom was innocent but the judge decided to make Tom go to prison. In the book it said that Mayella hugged and kissed Tom on the cheek. From this I can infer that Mayella is desperate and can get away with this because Tom Robinson is a black person. This reminds me of a couple southern movies I’ve watched where black people are always the first to suspect because of their color. Tom Robinson on trial for his life said Bob Ewell yelled “whore I’ll kill you” when he saw Mayella kiss Tom from the window.

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He never had many experiences outside of the house, so he acts as if he was still the child he was before he stayed in that house for so long. Boo Radley is also considered a Mockingbird, the symbol of innocence in the book. Jem conveys the theme of love for his sister Scout when he takes his birthday money to buy her a twirling baton (even though his caring gift didn’t last long). “Jem thought he had enough to buy a miniature steam engine for himself and a twirling baton for me” (Lee 116). While he does end up snapping it in half during his rage towards Mrs. Dubose, it is clear that Jem had loving intentions towards Scout.

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Scout’s loss of innocence in this novel is pretty minimal compared to the next character Boo Radley. The second character that represents a mockingbird is Arthur “Boo” Radley. Jem is growing older and starting to realize how the world is

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Once Atticus fully understands what he has been told by Mayella about what happened the day of the crime, he does his job as a lawyer and strongly defends Tom Robinson. He accuses Mayella of lying, knowing that she was only doing it to get what she and Maycomb wanted. “‘Tom, stand up. Let Miss Mayella have a good long look at you. Is this the man, Miss Mayella?’...

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Maycomb’s Mockingbird: Tom Robinson Tom Robinson is arguably the greatest example of a “mockingbird” in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird because he never intentionally caused harm, faced a biased community, and died a guilty, forgotten man. Atticus claims mockingbirds are different from other birds by saying “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

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Atticus starts with simple questions and when he notices that she was getting uncomfortable he dig deep and proves that it was Bob who beat Mayella and blamed it on Tom. But even that couldn’t change the minds of the racist men of the jury who sentenced Tom to death for rape. Bob threatened Atticus after the trial because he had destroyed the last bit of respect that he had in the town. One day while Jem and Dill were swimming, and Scout was with the Maycomb ladies, Atticus told them that Tom had been shot and killed while escaping from

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Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. A white lawyer, Atticus Finch, is representing him in court as he is faced with racism and disapproving glances from the people in Maycomb. Scout voiced in worry, “I shut my eyes,

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