Tom Robinson Trial

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From the article “Former Pediatrician Appeals ‘Waterboarding’ Conviction”, Melvin Morse, a former pediatrician, did not get a fair trial. Similarly, Tom Robinson from To Kill a Mockingbird also did not get a fair trial. A fair trial is a courtroom with an unprejudiced jury that listens to both sides of the situation without being biased. It’s a place where everyone is treated equally despite their looks and race. However, the prejudicial jury knew Tom Robinson is guilty before the trial begins. The jury judge Tom Robinson base on his looks and skin color instead of judging him on his statements. If a white person places himself in Tom Robinson’s shoes, they will realize Robinson is just like them, and he should not be treated like an animal.

I am reading, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the chapters 16 through 23 many events happens. At the beginning of the chapters the trail starts and Mayella testifies by saying that Tom ran up behind her and took advantage of her. Later Tom told his side of the story by saying that Mayella invited him in and she tried to kiss him. Mr. Ewell saw them and started to yell at Mayella so he ran off. After the testimonies were over the jury came up with the verdict that Tom is guilty. In this journal, I will be predicting the verdict of the case.

The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a view of life in the

How would you feel if you were shamed over things you couldn’t control? Based on only prejudice and stereotypes, some people hate others. Internalized intolerance can exist in everyone, mentally and legally. Court cases and trials can distinctly show this. To Kill A Mockingbird focuses around an unfair trial of Tom Robinson, who was wrongfully arraigned for raping a white woman. Although clear evidence pointed to Tom being innocent, he was still found guilty. Trials from the 1930s to today can compare to this. Many trials compare to Tom Robinson’s case on accounts of false accusations, discrimination, and unfair verdicts.

The residents of Maycomb have mixed feeling about the Tom Robinson trials outcome. The majority of the town is behind the verdict while the children were disgusted by it. Poor Atticus was heartbroken by the verdict but not at all shocked by the outcome.

As the novel progresses, both Jem and Scout are shown to mature, this is due to "To Kill A Mockingbird" being a bildungsroman novel. Through this coming of age process, we are actually shown Jem’s new found maturity enabling him to find empathy and acceptance regarding the Boo Radley myths, as he finally took his father’s advice to “climb into someone else’s skin and walk around in it” when he was explaining to Scout his epiphany that he “[is] beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut in his house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.”

Tom Robinson is innocent. From the fact that he cannot use his left hand, to the fact he was extremely upset and emotional at the trial, there are numerous things that speak Tom's innocence. Even though this period in American history was not the time of equality, Tom Robinson deserved a fair trial, which he did not get.

A trial that that was never meant to happen. A trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, where prejudice lives in that courtroom. A trial in which Tom Robinson is held responsible for raping, young Miss Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch is Tom Robinson’s lawyer in the trial and has to prove Tom Robinson’s innocence against two white people. Atticus’s purpose is to convey the concept that racism and prejudice is still occurring in Maycomb and as a county they haven’t done anything to change their ways of living.

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 259. This book is about the Finch family, which consists of the main character, Scout, her older brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus. Every summer, their friend, Dill, visits Jem and Scout. The family’s cook, Calpurnia, spends time watching the children. The story takes place during the Great Depression, in a small town in Maycomb, Alabama.

Small towns can lead to many bad rumors that aren't true, trust me, I would know. After Tom Robinson's trial, about a black man raping a white woman, some trouble stirred up here in Maycomb County. Bob Ewell, a very racist man, spit in Atticus's face for defending a black man, it's a good thing that Atticus, Tom Robinson’s lawyer, kept his cool, who knows what he would've done. This town has been having so many troubles lately, with the snowy winter and then Tom being convicted then killed. Everyone thought that I was scary and a complete myth, but it was almost time for them all to know the truth. I had been watching out for the kids, they'd been getting into a lot of trouble lately, but I was there to watch out for anything that happened.

Maycomb, a place with positive and negative feelings, a place of racism, a place of innocence. This novel To Kill a Mockingbird shows us the society of racism. At this time, Maycomb was suffering the Great Depression. In addition, it gives us a families point of view. However, they’re the main characters, which is Atticus, Jem, and Scout. The two themes I’d like to point out are innocence and inequality.

Jem is young and carefree in the beginning of the novel. He is just starting to take on the responsibilities of an older brother: “Jem condescended to take me to school the first day, a job usually done by one’s parents, but Atticus said Jem would be delighted to show me where my room was.” (p.20). Atticus is trusting Jem to safely get Scout to school, and help her

Jem had changed throughout the story from acting like a child and doing things that children do to becoming more mature and taking part in the

Jem and Scout matured differently throughout this book. At the beginning of the book Jem was ten, by the end of this book he was an adolescent. At the beginning of the story Scout was about six. Scout was going through changes. Earlier she did not understand why Atticus was defending a negro.