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At the start of the story we (the audience) are introduce to the main characters; Atticus, Jem, Boo Radley, Robert Ewell, Scout, Tom Robinson, Calpurnia, and more. Boo Radley in “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is the character that we 1st get to see being judge. Jem and Scout see Boo Radley at first as nothing but a “malevolent phantom" (chapter 1 pg. 8) it states “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom” Everything that surrounds Boo Radley would be the rumors and myths. Boo Radley seems to have never came out his house unless it was needed for. As Boo Radley saved Jem and Scout from being killed by Bob Ewell, we (the readers) finally get an actually inside look into Boo Radley. Him saving them (Jem and Scout) showed that he is actually a humane person who puts others 1st before himself, who isn’t what the townspeople say he is. When he performed that act of heroism, both Jem’s and Scout’s views had been understood towards him; really realizing that Boo …show more content…
There wasn’t any tested proof of the rape, no evidence that he did in fact was a rapist. The trail knew it, they all did. They all knew the trail was unfair, they all knew that she was lying. Yet, they still went through with it, convicting Tom of raping her, and assaulting her. They still hanged him for a crime he didn’t commit. Atticus tried his best, but the townspeople didn’t like supporting African Americans, didn’t like them at all (proof :) Soon as the trail started people saw Tom Robinson guilty, not even hearing his side at 1st. Only 1st listening the ‘victims’ side, only to see the color of his skin to immediately think he was guilty of the crime. When Atticus finally served his side of the case and showing the jury Tom's side of the case, finally giving him the chance to tell the people what really happened. They still judge him as a guilty African American man with no conscious rather than an innocent man who was wrongfully

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