Explain Why People Are Wrongly Accused In To Kill A Mockingbird

People are accused everyday for something they didn’t do. People are put in jail for something another person has done. Someone’s life may be put to death over a fib. People are hurt for hearing information that they thought was true, but it wasn’t. There are three reasons why people are wrongly accused and that would be; false information, media, and being too scared. The first one is false information. People are given false information all the time. There is this and that going around and its believable. It gets spread around from person to person and eventually words are thrown in, taken out and it’s all jumbled up. Most of the time it takes the wrong turn and sounds worse than what it was. Another way of false information is with someone telling another person that something is okay to do, when they either know it’s not or they think
They are too afraid that society will treat them differently if they thought differently. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. There is enough evidence to prove that he did not do it. Atticus talks about, in the testimony, that she came onto Tom and kissed him. She did it because she is lonely. She also said, “you’d would be the first man I kissed, and anything my dad does, doesn’t count,” so that kind of makes you think that her dad has maybe sexually abused her. Also Tom has a crimpled left arm and Mayella was hit on her right side of her face, by a left handed person. Also Bob, her dad, is left-handed (Lee 393-395) Later on the verdict says that Tom is guilty. You know by all the evidence that he is clearly not. It also took a couple hours to make the decision. It should have been a quick decision but it wasn’t. So, you know that they had to really think about it and the people probably thought about saying he is not guilty, but they went with how society is and were to scared to vote against