Tom Robinson Trial

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

At the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout was young , childish and lacked the ability to see things from other's point of view. From the children's point-of-view, their most compelling neighbor is Boo Radley, a man that always stay in his house and none of them has ever seen. During the summer , they find Boo as a chracacter of their amusement. They sneak over to Boo house and get a peek at him. They also acting out an entire Radley family. "Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and all I had to do was come out andsweep the porch. Dill was old Mr. Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk andcoughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the frontsteps and shrieked and howled from time to time"(chapter 4). Eventually , Atticus catch them and order

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the mockingbird is treated as sacred. It is considered a sin to kill a mockingbird in Maycomb County, Alabama. The mockingbird does not bothered anybody or harm anyone. Throughout the story we see different characters showcasing the characteristics of a mockingbird. All these characters do not bother anyone in society, but are still being brought down.

Tom Robinson was an innocent African American man who was brutally killed after an attempt to escape the prison he was sent to for being accused of raping Mayella Ewell. On August 4 Robinson appeared in trial with Atticus Finch. A white girl, Mayella Ewell, and her father had accused Robinson of raping Miss Ewell. They claimed he had beat her on her face and about her neck. Her right eye had been punched. Mr. Ewell claimed that it was Robinson who punched her but Mr. Ewell is left-handed and Tom does not have a single working muscle in his left arm. It was clear that Mr. Ewell had beat Mayella after catching her kissing a black man. Tom Robinson was not guilty, yet

On the night of Halloween Bob Ewell was murdered, stabbed in the back, with three present witnesses: Arthur Radley, Jem Finch, and Scout Finch. One witness is being tried, Arthur Radley, for the murder of Bob Ewell. Arthur Radley known as Boo Radley to the town never leaves his home but was in the woods to “rescue” the Finch kids when Mr.Ewell gets stabbed with no other witnesses. Maycomb County’s district attorney is charging Mr.Radley with voluntary manslaughter. I sat down with Mayella Ewell to discuss and gain information on her father’s murder and relationship with Mr.Radley. Mayella believes Mr. Radley is guilty of murdering her father “in cold blood” as he took an innocent walk through the woods after the county school’s Halloween pageant.

But Tom doesn’t make any attempt to push Mayella away for approaching him, but instead he chooses to flee in the middle of the crisis, not hurting Mayella and Bob Ewell in any type of way. By running away from the scene, as opposed to staying and asserting himself, Tom makes it possible for the Ewells to make whatever claims they wish in court. It is ultimately Tom's ignorance as to how to handle the situation at the Ewell's, as well as his position as a black man in the South, which lead to his conviction, as well as his demise. After being killed attempting to flee from the confines of prison life, Tom, in an editorial by Mr. Underwood, is compared to, "a harmless songbird killed by senseless hunters." Here again, the image of the Mockingbird is raised; sighting another

Later on, though, Jem and Scout are attacked on their way home from their school pageant. Heck Tate, the sheriff, investigates the scene while a doctor looks at Jem, who was unconscious. When Heck gets back, he identifies the attacker as Bob Ewell, who was now dead, after falling on a kitchen knife. Atticus gets upset, but Heck Tate reassured him, “Mr. Finch, there’s just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to ‘em. Even then, they ain’t worth the bullet it takes to shoot ‘em.

Tom Robinson had always passed by the Ewell house and on the way to work and Mayella Ewell often asked for him to help her with the chores. One of the days, the last day in fact Tom claimed to be at her house, she asked him to come inside and fix her door. She leaned in for a kiss and her father, Bob Ewell, saw this and Tom claimed that he called her a whore and threatened to kill her. Tom left and Bob was furious about his daughter’s interactions with him.

One of the characters that have been innocent throughout the story is Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson had been accused of raping Mayella Ewell, and is brought to court, being defended by Atticus. Even though Tom is innocent, he is proven guilty and taken to jail. When the jail has their

During the prejudiced and racially charged era of the 1930’s, attorney Atticus Finch from Maycomb, Alabama finds himself defending an innocent black man falsely charged with rape. Meanwhile, his son, Jem, and daughter, Scout, along with their friend, Dill, find themselves captivated by the rumors plaguing their neighbor, the mysterious and elusive Arthur “Boo” Radley.

The novel's theme focuses mainly on the issues of racism and the moral nature of human beings. Tom Robinson's trial embodies the main problem people are facing during the time set for the novel. He is considered a mockingbird which is referred to as the person who is innocent that has been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. He is a person of good nature and is known to have lived his life in modesty. However, through the extent of racist attitudes he was convicted from a crime he did not actually do.

1. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Jean Louise (Scout) Finch—the narrator—lives with her brother, Jem, and their widowed lawyer of a father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama. On one summer, the siblings befriend a boy named Charles Baker Harris (Dill) (who has visited for the summer), and the three soon begin to spark a fascination with the Radley Place—a cryptic and eerie house which is inhabited by a man named Arthur, although he is dubbed Boo—and begin to test Boo, even going into the yard, which leads Scout to believe that Boo is inhuman; for example, during the winter, Boo gives Scout a blanket without her noticing. Later, at the surprise to Maycomb’s racist community, Atticus agrees to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who

Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem are terrified of their neighbor Boo Radley, who is a rumored murderer in their county, who stays indoors all day, and comes out at night. The kids try to communicate with Boo throughout the novel, and go as far as breaking into their backyard and peeking into their windows, just to catch a glimpse of the feared Radley brother. When Jem is attacked, Boo stabs Bob Ewell, who was Jem and Scout’s attacker, and carries Jem home. When Scout meets Boo Radley, she sympathizes for him, by leading him to her front porch, and then home, as she realizes how out of his element he is. Boo is extremely out of the ordinary for Macomb County, and is extremely socially outcast.

Atticus made it immensely clear to the jury that Tom was innocent. It was actually Mayella who made sexual advances towards Tom, and as a result was beaten by her father for kissing a black man. However, despite the obvious, undeniable facts of the case, the all white jury found in favor of the Ewells and sentenced Tom Robinson to death. Tom eventually died when he was shot in attempt to escape from prison.

As most people at that time the white community in Maycomb are extremely racist but Scout’s father stay’s true to his principles and decides to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. We learn that a white woman, Mayella Ewell has accused him of raping and abusing her. Atticus wasn’t the only one suffering from the town citizen’s disapproval. Scout and Jem exposed to teasing and taunting from other children and they had to refrain themselves from losing their temper because of the racial slurs that were constantly thrown at them. When the case was taken to court Atticus presented significant evidence that Tom had not committed any crimes and that Mayella had been beaten by her father, Bob Ewell, who had called her a whore by finding out that she had made sexual advances towards Tom. Scout and Jem’s father reveals the truth and in the process insult Bob, who is known to be the town