Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

Throughout the story Scout, the main character who is six years old girl and does not understand what the society expects of her as a women and Jem her older brother see many differences in the way black are treated, the way they live and behave. They sees social stereotypes and misjudgments everywhere but does not understand it. One of the biggest in the story was the trial of Tom Robinson, a kind African-American man who is usually referred as the mockingbird in the story. Tom Robinson is sentenced just because he is black and his accuser is white. Atticus says “…absence of any corroborative evidence, this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life…”(Lee 206). The evidence leading to the fact that Bob Ewell is falsely accusing Tom of rape just because his daughter kissed Tom and

Tom was a black man in front of an all-white jury, knowing they wouldn't succeed Atticus and a few other townspeople like Miss Maudie and Mr. Link Deas fight against racism. In the end, he was sentenced. At one point Mr. Link Deas stood up in the courthouse and yelled “That boy’s worked for me eight years an‘ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him. Not a speck”(Lee 199). Tom would work for Mr. Link for years and he would pass by the Ewell’s house and Mealla would ask him to help her which he gladly did without pay but one day she kissed him and then later accused him of rape. Jem, Scout, and Dill there cousin also see the evil of racism but like everyone else are in the minority. Close to the same time that the book took place there were nine black men known as the Scottsboro Boys they were falsely accused and sentenced to death and the youngest for life imprisonment for a rape crime they never committed. The two women who accused them were pressured by police. The trial took only two weeks. All the evidence was pointing toward the fact the women were not telling the truth but still, they were