negro boys of raping them. On March 25th of 1931‚ both Victoria and Ruby had claimed they were raped by nine Negro boys in a freight train. It was as clear as day‚ that both of the girls had lied‚ but nobody admitted it. When both women were taken to trial and being questioned‚ they didn’t know how to defend themselves and state the evidence clearly. At the end of the trial there was no real proof that Victoria Price and Ruby Bates were raped by nine Negro boys. Both girls were accusing the boys of
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Price and Ruby Bates charged nine black boys with rape and assault. This is also true of the accusations made by Mayella Ewell and her father in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The situations presented are different‚ however. In the Scottsboro case‚ the girls said that the accused boys met them while hoboeing on a train car in Alabama. After fighting with and eventually discarding of a group of white boys‚ the girls stated that the black boys proceeded to rape them on the train car. Ruby Bates was a bit
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One World‚ Many Colors “The tragedy of life is not death‚ but what we let die inside of us while we are living”. I learned about two admirable stories one was non-realistic and the other was realistic(true story). They are very similar to each other‚ the first one is a novel called To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee about a man named Tom Robinson who was on trial for being accused of raping a white woman. The second story was a documentary called Scottsboro: An American Tragedy about nine
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with assault‚ but two women were discovered hiding on the train. The women‚ Victoria Price and her accomplice‚ Ruby Bates‚ were riding as hobos on the train and decided to testify against the boys to cover up the crime they committed (Wormser). The mirroring of these events suggest that Lee was influenced by real world incidences she grew up hearing about. In the Scottsboro Trials‚ Ruby Bates and Victoria Price went to see a doctor‚ and semen was found in both girls. They did not seem to be injured
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They met‚ and he convinced her to return to Alabama to testify” (“Ruby Bates” par. 6). Similarly‚ the key witness to the Tom Robinson Trial‚ Mayella Ewell‚ showed signs of lying and fabrication during her testimony. When Atticus‚ Tom’s lawyer cross-examined her‚ she was angry at him just for treating her like a lady. Mayella said‚ “I got somethin’ to say an’ then I ain’t gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me an’ if you fine
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There was no evidence to prove the women’s stories that the black men had actually raped them. In Tom Robinson’s trial it was pointed out that Mayella Ewell had bruises around her neck showing that someone had deliberately attempted to strangle her with BOTH hands. Mayella classified that she was beaten by Tom Robinson but she was not one hundred percent assured that it was really Mr. Robinson. Tom Robinson was then questioned about his left arm. He informed
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meaning‚ that injustice is when people are not being fair. In the cases of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ The Scottsboro Boys and The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Injustice was a part of the verdict. In To kill a Mockingbird Tom Robinson was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. In the Scottsboro boys case the nine boys that were found on the train were accused by the two women that they raped the two women. In the shirtwaist fire the women were suing the owners of the building because they locked the women in and there
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important similarities especially in the accusers. First‚ the accusers in both cases were white women from poor backgrounds. Mayella Ewell is described as ‘the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance’ in TKAM. She had to do all the house chores and take care of her younger siblings‚ so she couldn’t get enough education‚ and never had any friends. Likewise‚ Victoria Price and Ruby Bates also lived in poor village and had
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The personalities of Victoria Price and Ruby Bates are both characterized into Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell’s character demonstrates shyness and hostility making her seem as if she is emotionally unstable. Harper Lee‚ author of‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ hints at the inconsistency of Victoria’s and Ruby’s stories by characterizing Mayella as trashy and inconsistent. Samuel Leibowitz like Atticus‚ lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ strongly
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the story To Kill a Mocking Bird. In The Scottsboro trials‚ nine boys were accused of assaulting two young girls. Six of those boys were accused of raping the two girls‚ Ruby Bates and Victoria Price. Victoria was the one to point out the six boys who had raped her. Tom Robinson was also accused of rape a girl‚ Mayella Ewell. Just like in the case of Tom Robinson‚ this town is just a racist as Maycomb. Over a hundred men stood outside the jail hoping for a good “lynching”‚ compared to the few
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