to kill a mocking bird

In to Kill a Mocking Bird Tom Robinson is accused of a crime he did not commit. Appointed to defend Tom in court Atticus is uses all of his abilities and tries to convince the court to vote Tom innocent. Attempting to convince that Tom is innocent not raping Mayella he uses ethical, logical, and emotional appeal to protect him in Atticus’s closing argument. As Atticus is defending Tom he uses ethical appeal to bring out their reasoning of right and wrong. When defending Tom he listens to what the witnesses are saying and piece together the information and he came up with ways to defend Tom to how he can prove Tom is innocent as stated “Gentlemen,” he was saying, “I shall be brief, but I would like to use my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one, it requires no minute sifting of complicated facts, but it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white.” (pg.203) What he is saying in this quote is that despite his race Atticus will defend Tom fairly and equally as everybody else and to show that what has been said does not go together and means that Tom could be innocent. Another appeal that is used is the logical appeal that is all determined on the facts that he had. What Bob Ewell and Mr. Tate did and said sounded unreasonable to what they should have done if Tom did attack and rape Mayella as said “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence to the effect that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place. It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence has not only been called into serious question on cross-examination, but has been flatly contradicted by the defendant. The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.” (pg. 203) Atticus is trying to prove based on the evidence that the two witnesses had said is that what