The Trial Of The White House

from The Scottsboro Trials. The main plot in the book is about Atticus, a lawyer who was defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. The setting took place in a time that was very racist and segregated in Maycomb, Alabama. The Scottsboro Trials was about nine men accused of raping 2 white women. Harper Lee based the Tom Robinson trial in her novel on the real life events of the Scottsboro Trials, but there were significant differences between the trials. There are several

share many themes especially the theme of prejudice where one group of people had bigoted views against another. It is shown in the form of racism throughout the two stories where whites discriminate the blacks. In the town of Maycomb and Mississippi, there is bias, discrimination and injustice between the blacks and whites. Both Harper Lee and Alan Parker explore this theme of prejudice through what their characters stand for, the events that took place during both text and the context behind both

Scout and Jem know that it isn’t right what happened to Tom, and it shows how innocent the two are and how they couldn’t do anything to stop it, just like the house fire. The fire burning down the snow represents the rare occurrences that are going on in Maycomb during this year. One of the major events is the snow that hasn’t been seen since 1885, which astonishes all of Maycomb, especially Scout and Jem. On

so unintentionally. They opened the eyes of many white racists, won against the Jim Crow Laws, and inspired one of the most popular books in American Literature, To Kill a Mockingbird. These nine African- Americans beat racism and they were and still are an inspiration to all Americans. Scottsboro, Alabama was a somewhat ideal place to live in 1931 although money was scarce and not many jobs were available anymore. In mid- afternoon, 1931, two white women, Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, snuck onto

the Great Depression. One day a house across the street, known as the Radley house, gets reported as haunted, and that interests Scout and her friends. When they nearly get shot by somebody inside the house, they forget about the situation. Meanwhile, a neighbor's house burns, and Scout feels a strange presence from the house, but doesn't think much of it. Then, a poor father named Bob Ewell accuses a Tom Robinson, an innocent colored man, of murder. Tom loses the trial and dies shortly after. However

Watergate Burglary was also a mission given to the Plumbers to monitor the democratic party. However, in the morning of June 17, 1972, the Plumbers were caught inside the Watergate complex, and their address books showed that they are connected to the White House. There is no direct evidences that Nixon had ordered the Watergate burglary, but what he had done subsequently was just as despicable. Nixon had directed a criminal cover up of the Watergate incident to destroy evidences, interfere investigations

Robinson. Tom shows lots of courage from the time he is introduced and to the time he dies. He enters the Ewell’s house, he enters trial with great courage, and he tries to breakout of prison. These are reasons why he is so courageous. One way Tom shows courage is when he agrees to enter the Ewell’s house. Back when this novel took place (1930s) for a black person was dangerous without a white man’s word. Tom wanted to help Mayella out but instead Mayella started kissing him and Tom tried to run. “

over history. There are many cases in the story when racism overruled justice. One of the many occasions was the trial of the Scottsboro boys that was unfair and unobtrusively thoughtless. Racism is considered a disease in Maycomb county. The Tom Robinson case in the book was a very tough trial. They accused Tom for raping a white woman. Atticus was the one defending Tom. He knew the trial would be unfair with the Jim Crow laws in place. The laws were a racial system in the southern states and border

Harper Lee, Tom Robinson is in trial for the supposed rape of Bob Ewell’s daughter, Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson was on his way home when Mayella Ewell asked him to help her with something. Being a kind man, he went into her yard and started to look for some of the plants he usually dug up for her when she asked him for help. He didn’t find any, so he asked her what it was she needed. She told him a box she needed was up in a place she couldn’t reach. He went in the house and grabbed the box, and after

Mayella Ewell is a poor white woman who lives in a dump, her mom left her family when she was young. Mayella has stepped into the mother role in her family. In the story Mayella is abused mentally and physically by her father Bob Ewell. Mayella Ewell is a woman no one wants to associate with, she is white so on African-American man will talk to her and she is poor so no white man will. Characters that are a higher class are treated with more respect especially if they are a white male. In Maycomb it