During The Great Depression, families were stressed about money and they took it out on their children. In the story, To Kill A Mocking Bird. It was clear that Tom Robinson was innocent but during the time of The Great Depression, they did not believe him because he was a colored man that got accused of raping 19-year-old Mayella. The Ewells lived behind the dump and their home life was not the greatest causing Mayella to take care of the other children she had to save her alliance so they could have a better life. Getting treated differently could cause a lot of problems in a household. Mayllea’s dad is a drunk so it could be a possibility that he was the one to beat her up. In the story, it states “Except when nothing, said Mayella... My paws never touched a hair o’ my head in my life” (Lee, 209). But if he would never do that they why was she so scared when they asked her that question? In the story, it also says that “Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella” (Lee, 202). Atticus made him write his name on a piece of paper to see if he was left-handed or right-handed. Could Mr. Ewell really be at fault? …show more content…
“His left arm was fully 12 inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side” (Lee, 211). This is saying that it could not really be Tom because he does not even have a left hand. And someone that is left-handed is the one to have potentially have beaten up Mayella. And with everything else that they say about Mr. Ewell is making it seem like he is the only person that could have done it. Some examples it says are that he drinks all the time and he is never there for his children so Mayella is always trying to take care of them. But Mayella did not grow up with getting everything she wanted, she always had to work for it. People could say that she is not