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1. On page 255 states that Tom was passing by going to and from the fields while one day Mayella Ewell asked Tom to come inside the fence and bust up a chiffarobe for a nickel for busting up the chiffarobe but he knew he wasn’t gonna take it. 2. Scout thinks that Mayella Ewell is the loneliest person in the world because she didn’t have any friends and she says that she was a” Mixed child” because none talked to her stated on page 256.

3. Mayella and her father’s relationship was bad because he made her take care of seven children all day and he would beat her.

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