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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if all the evidence proves Tom to be innocent‚ the jury would be in favor of the Ewells because they are white. Tom Robinson would help Mayella with chores because it “looked like she didn’t have anybody to help her” (263). Because of this‚ Tom felt sorry for her. However‚ his feelings were invalidated when Mr. Gilmer exclaims‚ “You felt sorry for her‚ you felt sorry for her?” When Tom said he was sorry for Mayella‚ it implied he was better than her. In Maycomb County‚ a county divided along racial
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is receiving punishment without doing anything harmful. Also‚ Atticus is another innocent person who is hurt . Bob Ewell tries to get revenge by hurting his children. Atticus did not do anything harmful but tell everybody the truth about Bob Ewell’s offence. One more example is Tom Robinson. He is accused by Bob Ewell for raping his daughter‚ Mayella‚ but Tom only wanted to help Mayella for he feels sorry for her. In general‚ Scout learns it is a sin to hurt innocent people. Additionally‚ Scout
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give them two different identities. For example‚ Katniss Everdeen has two identities‚ one is how she acts in public. Katniss comes off as strong to the public but in private she is not. Through Harper Lee’s character’s Boo Radley‚ Atticus‚ and Bob Ewell readers learn that it is necessary to develop a public and private self in To Kill A Mockingbird. For Boo Radley it is very important for him to have a private and public identity. Not many people have ever seen him but they have heard stories of him
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covered her with the blanket when Miss Maudie’s house was on fire‚ Scout realized that Boo wasn’t as bad as the town gossip made him out to be. Her realization was strengthened when she found out that it was Boo Radley who had saved her and Jem from Bob Ewell. Once Scout had escorted him home‚ making
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Scout Finch: A Complex Character in To Kill a Mockingbird Lisa Tran ENG1D1d Mr. Huggett Monday. November. 30/2009 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee contains many interesting characters. One of these is Scout Finch. She is aggressive but also sympathetic and courageous. Scout is quite aggressive. During Christmas time‚ Uncle Jack Finch‚ Aunt Alexandra and Francis Hancock visited Scout and
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