shows that Tom Robinson is innocent‚ and casts all evidence upon on Bob Ewell. Three critical pieces of evidence clear Tom’s name. Mayella’s right eye was blackened‚ indicating that she was most likely struck by a left hand. (Pg. 235-237) As Tom’s left arm is crippled‚ (Pg. 249) and as Atticus demonstrated‚ Bob Ewell is left-handed‚ (PG. 237) and the physical evidence points to he would have been able to do it easier. Furthermore‚ with intention to frame Tom‚ when Bob realized Mayella was injured
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“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” (Lee‚ 323). In the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ a trial‚ in the year of 1935‚ between a low class white family and a black man occurs. It is significant because narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ and brother‚ Jem Finch‚ learn through this case their key morals dealing with racism. Tom Robinson‚ the black male‚ is accused of raping a white female by the name of Mayella Violet Ewell. Mayella‚ daughter of Bob Ewell‚ comes
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County‚ Alabama. A nineteen-and-a-half year old white woman named Mayella Ewell and her father filed a rape charge against a maimed black man.The courtroom was packed to the brim with white and black viewers. The judge‚ Mr. Taylor‚ was draped lazily across his chair‚ looking very well asleep‚ as the prosecutor drilled first Mr. Tate‚ the local sheriff‚ then Mr. Ewell‚ and finally Mayella. According to the witnesses‚ the girl asked for Tom Robinson’s help to “bust up a chiffarobe” and when she turned
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Tom Robinson and the Lynch Mob During the scene at the gaol Scout and the other children don’t fully understand the incredible danger posed by the presence of the lynch mob. The story is told from Scout’s point of view we aren’t directly told what could happen. Similarly we are not given access to the thoughts of the members of the lynch mob. The narrative perspective prevents us from knowing Tom Robinson’s thoughts or even what Atticus is thinking at this point in the novel. However‚ we gain some
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In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Mayella Ewell is a nineteen year old girl who accused Tom Robinson‚ a black man who helped do handy man jobs‚ of rape. She brought him to court and perjured against him. Scout gave insights and her own reflections about Mayella. Scout reveals some insights about Mayella Ewell. Mayella was the daughter of Bob Ewell. The Ewell family lived by the town dumpsters that have filthy surroundings. To keep themselves clean‚ someone had to bring up a pail of water
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Bob Radley and Tom Robinson come from different backgrounds. They both face similar stories of prejudice and unfair judgements. Boo and Tom face some of the same hardships throughout the novel. They are both good men who were put down because they were considered “different” than others in the town. Their actions were very much criticize. Boo Radley was punished by his father as a teenager‚ so if was put on lock down‚ as he
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anything special because you don’t take the time to realize that there’s another side to everything you see. Just like in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Tom Robinson wasn’t guilty but because he was a colored person the jury didn’t take the time to actually hear what he had to say. They had just assumed that he was guilty because he was a dark colored man and Mayella Ewell was a white lady. Because of the false assumption that
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The Devil Both Tom walker and daniel webster had devil type figures in there stories Guarded the treasure of the pirate named kid and the other one was a devil named scratched Jabez stone was just the same as tom walker they both sold there soul to the devil also known as scratch they both hated there life so they decided to change it for the better King philip and governor dale were sorta the same they were both chiefs governor dale was chief at a naval station and king philip was wampanoag chief
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father against a black man named Tom Robinson. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is set in a fictional town in Alabama called Maycomb and is set in 1933 to 1935 during the Great Depression. The narrator‚ Jean Louise Finch (Scout) leads us through three years of her life and shows what life was like in the South during the Great Depression. Jean Louise Finch gives us a view on how children think‚ learn‚ and understand how things work and why they work like they do. Tom Robinson‚ one of the main characters in
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Scottsboro trial and the trial of Tom Robinson in the novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird. “No crime in American history—let alone a crime that never occurred—produced as many trials‚ convictions‚ reversals‚ and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern railroad freight run on March 25‚ 1931” (Linder 1). The author of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee‚ was a young girl during the Scottsboro trial and based the trial of Tom Robinson in her novel off of the Scottsboro
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