Character Analysis Of Tom Robinson In Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, a young white woman from Maycomb, Alabama, named Mayella Ewell is charging Tom Robinson a black man of rape. Mayella Ewell is not powerful in the sense that she is classified within class, race, and gender.

In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama lives Miss Mayella Ewell. She is a smart but helpless teen that accuses Tom Robinson of rape to escape from her father's abuse. In “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Mayella is powerful, as defined by class, race, and gender. All though in many circumstances, Mayella's class and gender make her less powerful than most, her race makes her more powerful than substantially all negroes.

Tom Robinson was a man who respected others and had good moral standards. He was a truthful man and always helped those who were in need. For his kindness he was repaid with the judging eye of the whites and it cost him his life. ‘You’re a mighty good fellow, it seems- did all this for not one penny?’ He died in prison when he should have been a free man. He is seen as a man of truth, love and dignity. Tom Robinson was an innocent man who told the truth throughtout his trial while the whites lied just so they could see a grateful, kind, helpful man pay the price for their wrongdoing and all because he had different coloured skin.

Mayella Ewell is a tragic character in To Kill a Mockingbird. She is faced with many struggles involving her family and the people around her. Although Mayella is a poor white woman with an abusive father, no mother, and six siblings to take care of she does have power. Mayella Ewell is powerful as a character and continues to gain power in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird when it comes to race, class and gender. Despite Mayella being very poor and in a lower class of the society in Maycomb Alabama she uses her status as a white female to manipulate others into deciding in her favor when dealing with her court case against Tom Robinson regarding him being wrongfully accused of

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella is powerful based on class, gender, and race. The book shows us how she does have power, and gives supporting evidence. In this time period, in a small racist Southern community during the 1930’s, all of the categories listed are very important and contributes a lot to a person. Each category has its own reasoning why Mayella is powerful. Mayella has much more power than the other person in their situation, because of all of the listed evidence. Mayella is in a trial up against a black male, Tom Robinson, who she accused of trying to rape her. They were also caught by Mr. Ewell, Mayella's father. Therefore, Tom Robinson has little to no chance of winning the case based off class, gender, and race especially during this time period.

The nature of humans causes us to harm others, but some of us don't hurt others, instead they get wounded physically or mentally by others, those are mockingbirds. Three peoples are mockingbirds in the book To Kill a Mockingbird.

Race, gender, and class are all possessions people have that can make them powerful, but at the same time they can make themselves a powerless person too. Mayella Ewell is a white female who comes from a poor family living in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, an African American man by the name of Tom robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell won the case and the trial which sent Mr. Robinson to jail where he eventually got killed. Mayella Ewell’s race was powerful enough to kill a man that was accused of a crime he never did; however, her gender and class power make her to a point where she is not a powerful person at all.

Is Mayella Powerful? In the past, we lived in a large racial society where many White Americans did not accept African Americans as their equals. In Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, the novel focuses on the story of a rape trial located in a non-existent town of Maycomb, Alabama. It’s about a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a poor white woman, Mayella Ewell.

Imagine you are a lawyer tasked with an impossible case, and everybody in your community is against you, but still there is a shred of hope you cling to. What might that be you ask? That to which you cling are your morals. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had been given the Tom Robinson case, where a black man was convicted of raping a white woman. As a single father of two children, he continues to reinforce his values throughout the trial and during his daunting task of raising his children. In To Kill A Mockingbird what Harper Lee suggests about the nature of morals is that you should try to stand up for what you believe in even if people oppose or reject your ideals. Even when faced with an insurmountable opposition you should stand up for your morals because in the end if your don't follow your beliefs you are just contributing to the problem. We should try to create a voice for what we believe in and impress that upon the next generation so they can continue to exercise their beliefs to make the world a better place.

Race during this time was a large contributor to a person’s power status. Even though the evidence showing that the Ewells’ were guilty was much more than the evidence showing Tom guilty, no jury would “decide in favor of a colored man over a white man” (Lee D). Tom Robinson’s evidence was much stronger than Mayella and Bob’s case, but because the Ewells are white, they won the trial. However, Mayella’s gender and social class limit the amount of power she has, even if she is white. This is shown when Mayella thinks that Atticus is “making fun of her,” but he is really just being polite (Lee C). Because her social class is so low, Mayella is not used to people treating her with respect, and because of her gender, she cannot leave her abusive home. Mayella does have power in race, but overall is not very powerful because of her low standings in social class and

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Mayella Ewell is one of the characters that drive the story. Mayella has convicted a black man, Tom Robinson, of rape. In the three aspects of class, race, and gender, Mayella has a lot of power because she is a white woman living in the south during the 1930’s, when blacks did not have a lot of power compared to whites, and she is protected under the Jim Crow laws.     Mayella gets a lot of power from her race. She is a white woman that is living in the south during the 1930’s, which was when colored and white people were separated, and whites had a lot of power over blacks.

Mayella Ewell has just accused Tom Robinson of rape in a little town of Alabama called Maycomb. Mayella is a white teenaged female while Tom is a black male. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper will display if Mayella has power or no power related to her trial, with the help of class, race, and gender.

Mayella Ewell from To Kill a Mockingbird has power associated with and drawn from gender, class, and race. The least amount comes from the genders presented in the trial. Mayella gets more power from her social class because of her perfect red geraniums. People in the courtroom can also see that, compared to the rest of the Ewells, she is clean, so that sets her apart from the rest of her family. Most of Mayella’s power comes from her race. In a white dominated society, people will always believe the word of a victimized white woman over that of an offending African-American man.

Tom Robinson finally testifies and I believe what he says. The only reason why he is even in that court is because his skin color. First off, Tom Robinson has always passed by the Ewell’s place and Mayella always asks him to do some work for her. Tom Robinson was just trying to be a gentlemen. Secondly, Tom Robinson has a family. I am sure any gentleman like him would not do that to his own wife or kids. Besides having a family, the man is crippled!! There is almost no way he abused Mayella as described by Bob and Heck.The only reason why he is guilty is because he is a Negro, and everyone assumes Negroes always do bad. The facts are plain and simple. Mayella tempted Tom and Bob being the abusive person he is, abused Mayella for what she had

Power is everything. In the to kill a mocking bird mayella Ewells trials Tom Robinson a. black man, because he supposedly raped her, everybody in the court knows that mayella is guilty but because she’s a white woman she has more power over Tom Robinson and won the trial Although everybody knew that she was lying they still defend her, but is mayella powerful.