Tom Robinson's Death In To Kill A Mockingbird

Tom Robinson is dead. Not a surprise for me, although people do seem startled by this news. I honestly don’t understand how it is possible. Each black person who passes through the courthouse doors doesn’t go back to the family. Usually negroes are, at the least, sentenced to a couple of years in prison, despite the crime ‘committed’. Now and then the punishment can even be worse, if the jury feels particularly discriminatory. At the end everybody who enters that hellish room leaves their children, parents or wives on their own in this cruel cruel world. The events continuously repeat over and over again, and there are always some innocent, optimistic imbeciles who keep hoping for a different verdict to escape the jury’s lips. Fools who keep
seeing the light at the end of the dark tunnel of misery which black people have to live through from birth to death. Stupid idiotic fools. This time I was an idiot too, you know. This time, even if only for a second, I had hope too. Hope for Tom Robinson, whose only sin was to be too kind to that disgrace of an Ewell woman.