To Kill A Mockingbird Dbq

Power is the mental and physical ability to overcome obstacles that come your way. The plot for To kill a Mockingbird is that a black man named Tom Robinson was accused of raping a white woman named mayella. Because of mayella’s gender and social class she is downgraded by the community, but her race will give her power.

Although mayella lacks power because of her social class because she is poor and has little education if any. (Doc A)“We’ll convict the negro get back to your dump”, They degrade mayella because she lives in and old negro cabin behind the trash dump.(DocE) “White people did not want anything to do with her, she lived among pigs”.”long’s he keeps on calling me ma’am and miss mayella i do not have to take his sass”, She’s
(DocB)”Mayella looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing. He sat straight up and waited for her to answer”, he was intimidating her.”He’s tollable cept when”,then she stops her sentence because she notice that her dad is staring at her. Mayella lacks power because her gender because she is female and not equal to men.
In fact mayella gains power from her race, White people were superior in the south at this time.(DocC)”after all he is just a negro”,This shows that people had no respect for black people during this time and mayella is not black.(DocD)”that all negroes lie, that all negroes are basically immoral beings, That all negro men are not to be trusted around our women”,White people did not want anything negroes and they were very judgemental.(DocE)”it came to me that mayella ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world”,They treat tom like he’s not a human being and he feels sorry for mayella because how her dad treats her very badly and people treat tom even worse.Mayella gains power from her race but her lack of power in other areas such as her gender and social