was Tom Robinson. Tom was an innocent negro man accused for raping Mayella‚ although he did not do it. His character ties in with the book because a mockingbird symbolizes innocence. The ways that Tom was symbolized as a mockingbird was through his obliging ways‚ compassion‚ and innocence. Tom Robinson was an obliging young man who had gone out of his way to lend Mayella a hand. Day after day Robinson would help lonesome Mayella. Robinson did small errands for her and never charged a single dime
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to get out of trouble and the boys got in trouble even though they did not rape the ladies. Mayella could not get her story straight on how Tom had raped‚ beaten and chocked her and was making the story up on the spot. ( ‘I ducked and it- it glanced‚ That‘s what it did. I ducked and it glanced off‘ Mayella had finally seen the light. ’ you’re becoming suddenly clear on this point. A while ago you couldn‘t remember too well‚ could you?’) (P.187). The Ewells aren’t only putting trouble on Tom Robinson
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long time to let it sink in" and we realize that at this‚ Toms death sentence‚ he felt sorry for Mayella Ewell‚ and might end his time (197). During the time period this event happened‚ racism ran rampant among those in Macomb. "There are four kinds of people in the world. There’s the ordinary kind‚ like us and the neighbors‚ there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods‚ the kind like the Ewells in the dump‚ and the Negroes" says Jem in his attempt to find ground on the subject (226). The
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and lost the case to Mayella Ewell. Besides the economic class‚ the role of women‚ and the color of your skin‚ the real question is how does power play a role in this? Because of her gender and class‚ Mayella is powerless‚ but her race makes her powerful. Although race makes Mayella powerless‚ class is one of the things that makes her less powerful. An example of this would be “Mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean‚ and I was reminded of the row of geraniums in the Ewell yard (Doc.A).” This
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’The Crucible’ is a play written by Arthur Miller in which he demonstrates the familiarities of the life he lived in the nineteen-fifties. He communicates through his work to the way people are in his society and what people were like in the seventeenth century. However‚ ’To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a prose‚ written by Harper Lee in the nineteen-sixties in which she illustrates‚ how racism was acceptable‚ and injustice was a problem in which everyone faced in the nineteen-thirties. Both of these literally
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To Kill a Mockingbird: Question Packet. KEY Answers are to be written in complete sentences and in present tense. (Page numbers: First number is for the new publication of the novel; the second number is for the older publications of the novel). Chapter 1 01. Why is Dill a curiosity? (12;7) His shirt buttons to his shirt; his hair is snow white; he has seen a movie‚ Dracula‚ which he retells to Jem and Scout. 02. Where is Dill’s father? (12;7) He does not have one. His mother‚ it is learned
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just going with the crowd would be the easier and safer route. He sacrificed his reputation‚ and possibly even his safety and the safety of his children for no other reason that doing what he felt was right. Bob Ewell as a symbol of racial hatred and lack of moral integrity. Bob Ewell suffers no guilt for the lies he spreads due to his abusive behaviour‚ disrespect for people and prejudiced outlook. When faced
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a black man who was falsely accused of raping a white girl‚ Mayella Ewell. This article shows the possibilities that Atticus was either right or wrong in his case.
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Robinson away from her. Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did. What did she do? She tempted a Negro.” (Lee 203) In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Tom Robinson‚ an innocent and nice black man was accused a raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch is Tom Robinson’s lawyer‚ and he has it all under control and is able to prove his point that Tom Robinson is not guilty. Tom Robinson is not guilty because the jury is inconsistant‚ there is no evidence of rape‚ and an important
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a trial going against a white girl named Mayella Ewell and a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused of rape. Mayella looks powerless because of her gender and class‚ but her race actually gives her power. First of all Mayella is poor and when I poor I mean she’s really poor. Here is some evidence of why she is poor. “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a negro cabin.” This quote in Document A tells us that the Ewells lived in a dump‚ literally. “White people
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