When Was Tom Robinson Accused

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama, where racism is a very big problem. In to Kill a Mockingbird they talk about a case where Tom Robinson (A black man) supposedly “raped” a white woman. In the case, Atticus was defending Tom Robinson and made very strong points and proved the Ewells wrong but still ended up losing because the courtroom favorited the Ewells because they were white. Tom Robinson on his side of the story said that he did not rape her and that she actually tried to kiss him. All that the Ewells could say was Tom Robinson tried to rape her, but they had no evidence and were trying to avoid Atticus’s questions that proved Tom innocently. There was so much favoritism towards whites because of their skin color which caused

For example, they were assuming that Tom Robinson was the one the harmed Miss Mayella because he was a Negro, ““Found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up, but I heaved her to her feet and she washed her face in a bucket in the corner and said she was all right. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson — ””(Lee, Chapter 17)Mr. Ewell was the one that made that statement and wanted to get the rest of the room against him and persuade the judge to make sure that he goes to jail. He wanted to make it seem like Tom did it because he was black, he did it and wanted to blame Tom because there was a chance he did it from what we know. For example, everyone going against Tom Robinson assumed he raped Miss Mayella and beat her up because she had bruises but Tom Robinson defends himself and makes a strong case, “ She reached up an‘ kissed me ’side of the‘ face. She says she never kissed a grown man before an’ she might as well kiss a nigger. She says what her papa do to her don’t count. She says, ‘Kiss me back, nigger.’”() Tom now shows and proves that Miss Mayella was the one that started it, he made a claim that made a lot of sense. It also explains what Mr.Ewell saw and cleared up the reason why he ran out the house. All in

To show, Atticus explains to his son Jem that the justice system is broken and favor white people no matter how strong of a case he could make, “There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (Lee, Chapter 23). Atticus has experience with these cases before because of his job and he knows how it all works, no matter what he does, nothing he could do would help him win if he was defending a black person. After Tom was sent to jail, he tried to escape because he didn’t want to be there and he got shot 17 times. To prove Atticus comes home with a frown on his face knowing that Tom is now dead, he tells Scout and Aunt Alexandra the news, “ ‘Oh yes, the guards called to him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They got him just as he went over the fence. They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.’’ (Lee, Chapter 24).They shot him way too many times, he was trying to escape so they had the right to shoot him because he wasn’t listening to their warnings but they didn't have to shoot him 17 times. At the end of the day, it is too late to change the fact what the