Tom Green County

Key Terms Antagonist The Antagonist is the character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends (if there is one), is the antagonist. Protagonist The protagonist is the main character of a work of fiction is typically called the protagonist. Allegory Allegory describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. Direct Characterization* Direct characterization is the development of the personality of a fictional character using descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets

emotional conflict. Also, Mockingbird was set in the south --Maycomb, Alabama-- where racial segregation was high against blacks. In the novel, Tom Robinson was an African American man who was wrongly accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman who was responsible for falsely accusing him to save her own reputation. The biased white jury sentenced Tom Robinson to be guilty

Mockingbird is a fictional story following the journey of the young narrator in the name of Scout Finch through the cruel acts of racism in her town during the 1930’s. Lee demonstrates discrimination in court during this time period using Tom Robinson’s trial, Tom

Rachel was born into slavery in Putman County close to Eatonton, Georgia. Rachel had a mother and father but her father was sold when she was a baby. Her mom’s job was to weave clothes and many times Rachel got to wear the clothes. Rachel grew up with 17 children and only one of them being a boy. They lived in small log cabins, their beds and pillows were made from old hay. Rachel says as children they were fed cornbread and potlicker, adults were fed meat, greens, and cornbread. Marse Lewis Little and

Susan Smith was never lucky in relationships. She had countless boyfriends and had an off and on relationship with her husband David. By many accounts, she was a loving mother to her two children. But, that all changed one October night when she took the lives of her two boys by submerging her car into a lake. Susan Leigh Vaughan was born on September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina. She was the youngest of three children and her parent’s only daughter. After her parents’ divorce, when Susan was

travel, when producing local and transporting from a distant farm. The distance food traveled from a local farm in Colborne to a farm in Toronto, in miles, was nearly 20 times less ᷾than transporting from a farm in Orange County (Ironside 646-7). By producing food in Orange County, then transporting it to Canada, the large amount of chemicals needed to preserve the freshness, would be decreasing the healthiness of the potato and increasing the price for consumers. In School Bus Farmers’ Market, the

Despite the visible innocence of Tom, fair trial didn’t happen due to the predominant racism. “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” Mr Gilmer offensively questioned Tom after his statement that he feels sorry towards Mayella Ewell shows the rigid prejudice on black men. Mr Gilmer being a white American man is struggling to understand a black man Tom, in the bottom of the society, feeling mercy for Mayella who is higher upon the social

how Mayella is trapped in her improvised, friendless state with nobody who respects her, we realise it would not have been difficult for her to become fixated on and fantasise about Tom Robinson, as he ‘was probably the only person who was ever decent to her’ (p.257). We are also able to understand why she lies about Tom raping her during the trial when we take into consideration that Mayella is living in fear of what her drunk and abusive father, Bob Ewell, would do to her if she was truthful. As

marriage or sexual relations between people of different races. People at Maycomb county, both black and white, were very prejudiced against the idea of miscegenation and those who committed it and would immediately marginalise anyone who disregarded the general 'rule' and had sexual intercourse with a person of another race. The fear of marginalisation led Mayella Ewell to lie in court about the incident with Tom Robinson and this fear was also the reason her father beat her when he saw her making

As the need of electricity rises to sustain more and more electrical devices and support America’s constantly growing population, there becomes a need for more efficient ways of producing the energy needed to accommodate these demands. There are plenty of renewable resources such as wind, water, and the sun, but these sources have yet shown any practical use in America’s need for massive amounts of energy (Schulz). One solution to America’s needs may be to look more deeply into nuclear power. Nuclear