Examples Of Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

Is Tom Robinson Guilty? If someone asked Atticus Finch, a character from Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ “What is important to you?” , his answer would be justice. When an interaction between Mayella Ewell (a 19 year old white female) and Tom Robinson (a married and disabled black man) goes wrong, Mayella and her father, Bob Ewell, accuses Tom of rape and assault.

The historical Scottsboro Trial and the fictional trial of Tom Robinson in the book To Kill a Mockingbird have striking similarities that may or may not be coincidence. Both trials took place in Alabama during the same era of relentless prejudice and bias, which is a major factor in each of these cases. In both cases, the accusers were white women and the persecutors were black men; therefore the black men were immediately considered liars and “wrongdoers”, unlike the word of the white women, which was essentially the truth above the word of someone who was black. Even when the persecutors in these cases had a possible chance of being declared innocent, mobs of citizens formed to threaten them, many of whom were simply racist against

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, an analogy is made with the mockingbird and the book’s innocent characters. Atticus says, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (page 119). Tom Robinson represents the mockingbird in the analogy. Tom Robinson is like the mockingbird because he always helps Mayella with her chores for no money, had a crippled left arm, and his boss only has good things to say about him, but people are still out to get him.

In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by 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 he did Mayella told him the door was broken. Tom Robinson proceeded to look at the door, not finding anything wrong with it. He told her and she jumped on him, hugging him and saying she never kissed a black

The case is only a few days away and it is more serious than I initially thought. Mayella is accusing Tom Robinson of rape, a criminal offense that is punishable by death in the state of Alabama. Our side only has one witness, Tom Robinson himself. He has told me his perspective on the incident, admitting that he had visited her numerous times for jobs that she appointed to him. On the day of the incident, Tom claims that Mayella jumped onto him, hugged him and kissed him. Mayella will claim that Tom Robinson used unreasonable force upon her. However, Tom Robinson had an accident at a young age and has completely lost his ability to use his left hand. Tom will testify this upon the Court of Maycomb County. This should create a sense of

Gentleman of the jury, I would like you to take a look at this man, the man I am defending. His name is Tom Robinson. Tom is a diligent man. On a daily basis, he would walk to work, and when the time came after a day of long, hard work, he would walk home. He did it to provide for his family. Now, every day, on his journey to and from work, Tom would pass by the Ewell home, and Mayella Ewell would call him, from her yard, for help. Like anyone else in this town would’ve, Tom decided to help. He never wanted to harm Mayella. In fact, he felt sorry for her. How peculiar, in our society, for a black man to feel sorry for a white woman, a person who has more privileges and rights. Yet, he still felt sorry, and have had a good reason to feel sorry

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The previous chapters talk about Atticus taking a black man’s case. The rumor was that a black man named Tom Robinson raped Mr. Ewell’s oldest daughter, Mayella. Everybody from Maycomb county knows for a fact that a negro has not nor will ever win a case. On the other hand, Tom said that Mayela told him to come into her house and then all of a sudden kissed him; however, who is going to believe him. Atticus is trying to walk in Mr. Robinson’s shoes. Mr. Finch does not care what color Mr. Robinson is, all that matters is that he is an innocent man who is loyal to others. In this journal I will be characterizing Tom Robinson and evaluating the reasons why Mayella Ewell lied in court.

Yesterday morning, a trial was held regarding an issue of a black man, Tom Robinson, raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. The case took place at the Maycomb County Courthouse which was divided into two levels, black folks in the balcony, and whites at the bottom. The case was conducted by Judge Taylor and a hand-picked jury. The defense lawyer was Atticus Finch and Mr. Gilmer was the prosecutor. The case ended by declaring Tom Robinson as guilty after long hours of jury deliberation.

With plentiful evidence that he could not have raped Mayella Ewell, it is obvious he was convicted due to the color of his skin. Atticus chooses to defend him even though he believes it is hopeless. Mayella, whom is the girl accusing Tom Robinson, is considered above the African American community even though she is considered “lower class.” In a conversation Atticus had with his son, Jem he says this ¨In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.” This is unfortunately an accurate statement for the time period and that is why Tom Robinson is convicted for something he did not

Many people believe that Americans should nullify its racial past. Although that is our past, as Americans we can’t change events that happened in history. In Tom Robinson’s trial it is shown how a little town like Maycomb can be with the town fold and their prejudices. Less than 100 years ago, African Americans were still slaves. The period of time this book was based on was when racism was supposed to be over although it still remains, MANY African Americans were slaves in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson, although a good man, was imprisoned for his skin color.

The Book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee protested the bringing of prejudice into the court of law. This was highly relevant in the 1930’s, when the book was set, and played an important part in the plot of the novel. In addition, this theme can easily be applied to today’s courts or other parts of our punishment system, when cops are less likely to give African Americans the benefit of the doubt, or when women are most likely to win custody of children, or in countless other scenarios where on group is consistently favored over another. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, a black man named Tom Robinson was accused of rape by Mayella Ewell, a white girl of 19. Despite lack of substantial incriminating evidence, Tom was found guilty and sentenced

Imagine being a black man in the 1930’s having a wife and children but gets pulled out of your house and gets charged with a capital offense. But now you are in a courtroom with an all white jury, judge and even your lawyer is white knowing that you are innocent but you already know your faith. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout is the son and daughter of Atticus, an intelligent man whose role in Maycomb County is a lawyer. The 1930’s will be viewed from innocent six year old Scout as she grows up in the small town filled with hate, penetrating her innocents but Atticus taught his children right. But when a case comes up for Atticus to defend a black man on a capital offense of raping a white woman sparks hate around

As the case went on and the evidence started to get pieced together, Atticus’s argument for Tom got stronger. But when the jury decided that he was guilty Atticus truly was expecting this outcome, he knew the ignorance and the pride of the people in Maycomb. For example, on page 243, it states, “Its not time to worry yet, Atticus reassured him, as we went to the dining room. We’re not through yet. There’ll be an appeal, you can count on that.” He is still hopeful that Tom has a chance. After he put all the evidence together and made the whole town realize the truth about this trial, he has faith that Maycomb will make the right decision the second time around. While in court giving his speech Atticus opened up a closed door to the people of Maycomb and the jury to make them realize a minor detail that they didn’t really look into. In addition to, on page 232 it states, “You know the truth, and the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not trusted around women- black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and no particular race of men. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, …” Atticus wanted to make sure that they knew all men were made equally regardless of race. Since Tom Robinson was a black man majority of them instantly assumed he was guilty. Never has a black man beat a white man in court and they want it to stay that

One particular warm summer day, just a few hours after noon in the “tired old town” of Maycomb, the Finch household was unusually quiet(6. Lee). So quiet you can hear a pin drop1. Atticus had gone out, the children were nowhere to be seen, and even Calpurnia was away visiting family claiming they could live a day without her. That left ”Aunt” Alexandra Hancock in the house all alone.

" She was white, and she tempted a negro, something that in our society is unthinkable, she kissed a black man " (Lee 1). At that time kissing a black man was bad it was unthinkable act and Tom had committed a terrible crime according to the white jury. The one-armed man had also been accused of beating Mayella Ewell and that was not true either. His defender Atticus Finch also served many injustices all for defending a colored man at the time. People of the town of Maycomb saw Atticus as the man who defends "niggers" and that was not fair for him and Tom Robinson because all he wanted was justice to be done.