Tom Robinson Innocent In To Kill A Mockingbird

As an outsider looking in on this case the verdict is quite simple. Tom Robinson is innocent. As a reader, it is incredibly obvious Tom has done nothing wrong. The only action Tom has done wrong is feel bad for a white girl who turned on him, “I felt right sorry for her” (264). Unfortunately, we, the readers, are not the jury, we have no say in Tom’s fate, instead, we have to put faith in a jury who believe “all Negroes lie…all Negroes are basically immoral beings…all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women” (273). That does not appear to be a jury to side on the moral side, it appears to be a jury to side on the white side. Yet this fact does not discourage Atticus from giving this case his best effort. He knows going into the case