Who Is Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

“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 from a family of ignominious descent. Whereas Tom is said to be a nice, hard working man. Father of Scout and Jem, Atticus Finch is given the position of defending Tom in court trying to prove him innocent of this racial hate crime. Although Mayella