According to the book on page 255, Tom visited the Ewell’s house in the first place when he was on his way to work, Mayella called him over to help her chop down the chiffarobe for a nickel and Tom said to her was “ No ma'am , there ain't no charge.” Also she wanted him to fix the door cause she thought it was broken.…
Even though Mayella is the poorest of her class, her living behind the dump and being considered “white trash” still ranks her higher than any and all African Americans, but only because she is white does this give her an advantage. (Class, Gender, and Race in To Kill A Mockingbird: Is Mayella Powerful? Page 7, DBQ)…
The ability to do something or act in a particular way is the power you have. The book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ tells a story about a poor white girl ( Mayella) that claims a black man (Tom) has raped her. Well Tom is wrongly convicted of raping Mayella. Someone's class, gender, and race affect their lives.Mayella has power over Tom in the novel because she is a white female, but she does not have power because of her class.…
In the early 1900s, power was divided in whites up and African-Americans down. Mayella has some power because of her race, white. She has more power than Tom because everyone that is white there is downstairs and everyone that is African-American is up stairs. She had more rights to say so more than blacks because of the skin color. Although her race gave her some power, her gender doesn’t.…
The book”To Kill A Mockingbird”, there are a lot of characters that have power. One of those characters is Mayella Ewell. In this paper, Mayella Ewell using her class, gender, and race will prove how and why she has power. She has power because of her gender and race mostly. But he class does play a part in why she has power. In the 1930 there were laws that keep blacks and whites separated. Some of the laws were set to keep black men and white women or the other way around from intermingling. Mayella Ewell is an white young woman that is very poor and is abused by her father. Tom Robinson is a older black man that helps Mayella out by doing stuff she can not do. But poor old Tom gets accused of raping Mayella. Tn the 1930, if you were black and you were accused of doing something to a white person, the white person always won the case. Since Tom was an African American and Mayella was white, he was found guilty. As a result, this shows you some reasons why Mayella has power.…
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Given Mayella’s race, you could say that she is a powerful person. As stated before, in that time period, white people had more power blacks. Black people were treated unfairly. For example, Reverend Sykes tells Jem that he “ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.”. Even though Tom Robinson was innocent, he was convicted mainly because he was an african american. Race gave Mayella an advantage as she tried to accuse Tom Robinson of raping her.…
Power means ¨the ability to do something or act in a particular way.¨ The book To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of people that are different and are not fully understood, so being known as different makes their lives harder to live. Because of her class and gender, Mayella is powerless, but her race makes her powerful!…
Atticus goes against the values of society. At the time period, blacks and whites were segregated and wanted nothing to do with each other. When a black man, Tom Robinson was accused of raping white girl, Mayella Ewell, tension grew among Maycomb. Atticus goes against the town's values and beliefs about blacks and decides to take Toms side. He believes Tom is innocent and supports him while society takes Mayella's side. Atticus demonstrates how skin color should not matter.…
In the little place of Maycomb there is a problem, a problem that shouldn't really be one, that problem is race, the white people against the African Americans. The inequality decisions that was made between an African American man, Tom Robinson against the townspeople. They accused Tom for sexual harassment against a white woman, Mayella Ewell. They said they found her all wound up on the ground of her living room, but Tom didn't do it and there was clear evidence that made it so.…
Being a powerful person is having the ability to influence the way other people behave or act. To determine whether or not a person is powerful several factors have to be considered. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the character of Mayella can be an example of a person who can or cannot have power depending on what kind of power is being taken into account. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee displays Mayella Ewell as a lonely white woman who lives in a miserable place and is abused by her father. In the novel Mayella has power according to race, however she does not possess enough power to be considered a powerful person.…
In “To Kill a Mockingbird” a black hardworking man named Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white women named Mayella Ewell. The truth of this matter is Tom Robinson, is Mayella threw herself at Tom. Mayella was a lonely women whose father abused her. She wanted to have intimacy with Tom Robinson, which “brings shame to her family”. When her father finds out Mayella tried to throw…
Harper Lee uses Mayella and her made up story to show the racism of the justice system, she…
Mayella Ewell shows how racial inequality can have horribly negative effects on one's life. Although it is hard to pity Mayella after the inhumane thing she did, she is worthy of pity, for what she did was not because of her own will, but because of the circumstances. Mayella Ewell, never having gotten a single spec of attention in her lonely life, felt important when with Tom. He cared about her and showed interest in what…
Race shows the measurement of mayella’s power. Mayella is powerful in race because she’s white and the men she’s accusing for raping her is black, back then you weren’t use to .seeing whites with blacks together. In the (document C) in “Ma’am…