Scout Finch Dbq

The year is 1930 in Maycomb, Alabama and there is a girl named Mayella Ewell who is nineteen years old in the story To Kill a Mockingbird. Mayella and Bob Ewell (Mayella’s father) live in a worn down abandoned negro cabin that is located behind the cities trash dump. Over time Mayella gets aggressively and sexually abused by her father which gives her the wishes of being freed from Mr.Ewell. To do this, Mayella decides to accuse Tom Robinson ( African American man) of rape. After accusing Tom Robinson, Mayella goes to court with her father to further explain the reason for the accusation. Mayella is then given the opportunity to have power for the first time in her life, however Mayella must decide now if she will take this chance of having power and being freed from her father or not be given any power at all. With this Mayella is given power because of her race, class, and gender the main factors of Mayella having power.

The literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird is the well known story of Jean Louise Finch as she grows up in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. The book follows the trial of Tom Robinson, an african american male accused of sexual assault by a woman named Mayella Ewell. Mayella Ewell is a young poverty-stricken woman who is mainly controlled by her father. In a town divided by gender, race, and class, Mayella does not have a large amount of power over her own life as well as other’s.

Claim #1: This novel educates students about the racism and prejudice that was present in the 1930’s (reword claim) Support #1: Firstly, one of the main types of racism seen in the novel is racism towards black people. Evidence #1: “He stood up and pointed his finger at Tom Robinson. ‘—I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!’” **find different quote if possible** Elaboration #1: It is much easier to accuse a black man of committing a crime and have the whole town believe it, rather than a white man. It is Bob Ewell, not Tom Robinson, who had raped Mayella. Mayella does not want to tell the truth because she knows that If her father goes to jail there will be no one to support the family. Also, she is embarrassed of her actions and wishes to protect herself. If she tells the court that she was the one who advanced upon Tom, the people of Maycomb would look down upon her.

During the 1930s, discrimination against African Americans was extremely prominent in southern towns. These towns characterized African Americans using different archetypes despite their actual personality, which widened the gap between the two races. In her book To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses the character of Tom Robinson to show how said archetypes against African Americans provides justification for racial mistreatment for white southerners. In the book, Tom Robinson, an African American man, is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Atticus, his appointed lawyer, finds many faults in Mayella's case, saying, “ I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have

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.

The judge and jury would never go in favor of an African - American of a white person. In the book, Mr.Glimmer asks Tom why he helped Mayella for not even a penny in return. Tom Robinsons answer was “ I felt sorry for her”. Mr. Glimmer made Tom say that in a way he was better than Mayella. Tom would have never said anything like that if

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird many people are judged based on what they look like. Mayella Ewell is not one of them. Mayella Ewell was a white girl from a town called Maycomb, Alabama during a very racist time period. She deliberately lied to the jury to put Tom Robinson in jail for a crime that he did not commit. In the story a black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. However Tom never did rape her. Mayella comes from a poor, prejudiced family that was not very respected by the town of Maycomb. When Mayella accused Tom Robinson of raping her, they would gain sympathy and respect from the town that they did not deserve. She ruined someone else's life because she felt bad for herself and could not make something of herself. Mayella is not a sympathetic character because she lied while under oath in the courtroom, she let her father make her decisions and she attempted to seduce a married man.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, African Americans experienced injustices on a daily basis. These injustices occurred socially, and even in the town’s judicial system. Throughout the story Jean Louise Finch, more commonly known as Scout, makes inquiries about the

Life is unpredictable, good and bad things are inevitable. Things are going to happen that will change you forever. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are young kids that all experience things that help them mature and change quicker than most children their age, but as you know everything happens for a reason.

Mayella is viewed by the entire town as an outcast. She wants to desperately change that. It’s pretty hard when your family is the town joke. Mayella is trying her best to become apart of her town and separate herself from her “white-trash” family by using Tom Robinson as a way for that attention. She decides to lie in court saying Tom raped her when really it was her father. Mayella babbles on and on about Tom Robinson and then Mr. Finch to where eventually she breaks down and starts balling. “ Judge Taylor let her cry for a bit and then said, “‘That’s enough now. Now you’re a big girl,...’” (chp 18) She uses her crying tantrum to draw the attention of the courtroom to herself. Mayella feels that if she is able to convict a black man of rape, she will fit into society because she has committed a racist act. Being racist will allow her to think she has slipped into society and feel somewhat accepted because everyone feels sorry for

Harper Lee's ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ explores the prejudicial issues which plague over the town Maycomb. Harper Lee uses the trial of Tom Robinson a black man accused of rape on a young white girl, Mayella as a central theme to portray the prominence of racial discrimination in Maycomb. The racial prejudice is also widely shown through the characterisation of Atticus. Having Scout as the narrator allows Harper Lee to highlight the gender inequity through a youthful unbiased perspective. The chauvinistic attitudes and prejudiced views of most of the town’s folk leaves Maycombs social hierarchy in an unfair order, victimising many of the town’s people due to their socially non-conforming habits some ‘socially unaccepted people’ including Boo

Harper Lee sets To Kill a Mockingbird in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Our protagonists are Atticus Finch and his children Jem and Scout. At this time black people were subjected to Jim Crow racism, which allowed for institutionalized discrimination. This coming of age story follows Scout’s development through ages 6 to 9. The story is based on the Scottsboro Boys trial of 1931 in which 9 boys were falsely accused of raping two white women. Lee’s story too centers on a racially charged unjust rape accusation. In To Kill a Mockingbird Lee uses Scout’s first person point of view to show us through the eyes of a young girl that, in our complex society full of differing perspectives and discrimination, true justice, in which right prevails in all ways, is not attainable. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird we see Scout wrestle with this idea of justice and what is right and wrong. Her struggle is apparent when her teacher tells her she’s not allowed to read, when her aunt tries to make her be more ladylike, and when people tell her to not spend time with black people even though her father’s defending one.

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of the little town of Maycomb in Alabama. On the first view, Maycomb looks like a town without any problems, but actually Maycomb is split by racism and intolerance. Scout, the protagonist of the story lives with her older brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. Most of the summer Scout, Jem and Dill, a friend, try to find out who Boo Radley is and why he stays in his house and never comes out. Atticus is a lawyer and defends Tom Robinson; a black man that is accused of taking advantage of Mayella Ewell. Actually, Tom Robinson never bothered Mayella. But since Tom was so nice to her, she falls in love with him and tries to kiss him. Unfortunately, her father sees them, accuses Tom of taking advantage of his daughter, and beats Mayella up so she doesn’t tell anybody. The consequences of racism ranges from prejudices and discrimination to the murder of innocent humans which can only be stopped through wisdom, courage, and steadfastness.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird explores ideas of racism and prejudice which overwhelmed a small town in the 1930’s. Tom Robinson, an African American local of Maycomb County, is wrongly accused of raping and brutally beating Mayella Ewell. A respected resident and attorney by the name of Atticus Finch, is publicly mocked and threatened because he was willing to look past the skin color of a man and search for truth and justice. Albeit the Ewells’ being a cruel folk who are looked down upon and thought of as the town scum, the jury still favored them in a court of law against an innocent black man. Meanwhile, Arthur “Boo” Radley and the entirety of his household are subject to gossip and nasty rumors from the whole town, simply because they’ve removed themselves from an interactive life with the townspeople. The inhabitants of Maycomb County take every opportunity to shoot down anyone who is different or has contradictory ideas or beliefs from what is considered “the social norm.”

In the words of the great literary character Atticus Finch to his daughter Jean Louise, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”—meaning that you can’t fully perceive a situation unless you see it from another person’s perspective. This, of course, is the character of a novel by the name of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. A Pulitzer Prize winning novel written in the perspective of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch growing up in small town Alabama during The Great Depression. During the climax of the novel, Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is put on trial for raping nineteen-year-old Mayella Ewell. Due to the color of his skin, Robinson was charged with the crime, of which he didn’t perpetrate in the first place. With this and other incidences, Tom was penalized for the color of his skin. As shown by the repercussions in To Kill A Mockingbird, it is important to treat people the way they want to be treated even if they are of a different race. When it is first learned that Atticus Finch will be representing Tom in court, the widowed neighbour of the Finches, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, believes he is insulting the family name because he is defending an African-American. Later, when Tom is holed up in jail before his trial, a mob is determined to lynch him to defend Mayella Ewell’s honor. A short time after the trial, Tom