Atticus after being accused or raping a white woman‚ Mayella Violet Ewell. This is an example of the theme Prejudice Inequality. For example on page 231 of To Kill a Mockingbird Mr. Ewell stood up‚ pointed at Tom Robinson‚ and shouted‚ “-I seen that black “n*****” yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella” Prejudice Inequality is strongly shown during this part of the book. Mayella Violet Ewell‚ a 19-and-a-half-year-old and eldest daughter of Bob Ewell as well as Tom Robinson’s accuser. Foreshadowing of
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different cause‚ and it bites a different person each time. In the cases of Tom Robinson‚ Bob Ewell‚ and Arthur Radley in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ justice is applied differently each time. Tom Robinson doesn’t meet an equitable end‚ with a death sentence over his head from the start. Justice isn’t in his favor in the stained prejudiced eyes and hearts of the people of Maycomb County. Bob Ewell tries to manipulate justice his own way‚ since he doesn’t believe that the justice he wanted
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people in the community is evident through the treatment of the Cunninghams and the Ewells. The wealthy white people treat the poor whites with contempt. This is clear when Scout asks to spend more time with Walter Cunningham‚ a member of one of the poorest families in town. Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her niece interact with someone of such low status and forbids Scout to have him as her friend. Further‚ the Ewells have the lowest status of everyone in the town because they are poor; as a result
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both Atticus and Miss Maudie agree that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because in society mockingbirds bring happiness and they don’t cause harm. In this book there are characters that could be symbolized as mockingbirds such as Tom Robinson‚ Mayella Ewell‚ and Boo Radley. These characters have been accused wrongly of things they have not done and they are all helpless in their own ways. Tom
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People Are Not Innocent Until Proven Guilty Some individuals say people are innocent until proven guilty. This is not the case for everybody. For example‚ in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are two characters‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley who are thought of badly by some of the people because they are different than the norm. Due to the fact that Boo and Tom are different then the rest‚ people tend to jump to conclusions. They assume that they are guilty before they are proven guilty. Tom
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Chapter 18: Mayella begins her testimony‚ she is nineteen and relatively clean compared to the rest of the Ewells. She lives with seven younger siblings who do not help with any chores and an alchoholic father. She also does not seem to know what friends even are. She says that she had offered Tom Robinson a nickel the evening of the incident to break up a chifferobe for her. Atticus questions her story. Like why she didnt put up a better fight or why the children didnt hear her screams‚ and most
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Harper Lee added the character of Atticus Finch as a level headed‚ fair‚ un-biased person for a number of reasons. For one‚ he provides a counter to the extremes of the Ewells and other white supremacists‚ showing that not all of society suffers of prejudice. However‚ he also provides the reader with a good example of how to make a difference in society. He defends Tom when nobody else will. He raises his kids correctly
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Alabama rocked by a young girl’s accusation of criminal assault. The plot runs as follows. Mayella Ewell was old Bob Swell’s daughter. She was white‚ and she tempted a Negro. She did some thing that in the society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Her father saw it. There was circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left. Mr Ewell did what any God-fearing‚ persevering‚ respectable white man would do under the circumstances
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and Tom and some other characters in the novel. The most prominent form of racial discrimination in the book is Tom’s trial. Tom‚ a black male‚ was wrongly accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell comes up with this story to convince the jury that Tom is guilty‚ and to cover his tracks of domestic abuse. Mayella Ewell was attacked by a person who is left handed‚ and Tom’s left hand was crippled by an accident with a cotton gin. Although Tom had a reason for being perfectly innocent‚ the jury
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famous and Pulitzer Prize winning book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee gives valuable insight into some of the daily occurrences back in Maycomb‚ Alabama during the 1930’s. Though it does not handle all of the major injustices like when Mayella Ewell gets raped by her father and the fact that Lee doesn’t accentuate the racism and discrimination that happened at this time. This book addresses some important principles that should be encouraged more in this day and age. In “At the Bar; To Attack
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