Summary Of Tom Robinson Trial And To Kill A Mockingbird

Both of the men in these cases were African-American men. In Tom Robinson’s case he was very discriminated. Tom was in the midst of racism’s prime. For O.J. Simpson, not only was he not discriminated against, but for a long time he was idolized as a star in the NFL. O.J. Simpson was loved by many for being one of the NFL’s best, and this may have been the difference in his case.

A significant difference between the Steven Avery case and the Tom Robinson case is that in Tom’s case he actually knew Mayella Ewell the person who accused him of rape. Meanwhile in Steven Avery’s he had no idea of who Penny Beerntsen his accuser was. Another remarkable contrast between Steven Avery’s case and Tom Robinson’s case was that in Steven’s case Penny Beerntsen accused him of rape without full consent/ intention, on the other hand in Tom’s case Mayella Ewell was fully aware that Tom did not commit the crime she was accusing him of intensionally hurting him. Although the cases prove their fair share of divergence the cases do come together when it comes to the treatment in the courthouses. In Tom Robinson’s case and Steven Avery’s case the court and its officials are each against Steven and Tom. The court and jury rather be rid of each said individual then deal with either Tom Robinson or Steven Avery. ( Making a Murderer, To Kill a

During the Stories of To Kill a Mockingbird and the story of Emmett Till there are two africans who were killed for harassing a female but the stories are very different. The fictional and nonfictional stories have many things that do and don’t resemble each other.

The murderer cases of emmett till and trayvon martin have many similarity. Emmett till and trayvon martin were physically beaten and shot to death. According to article “A Longer look at the Emmett Till Trayvon Martin Comparison”, it states “two men in nineteen fifty five murdered 14 year old Emmett Till Chicago teenager visited relative in mississippi.In the same article a Longer look at the Emmett till Trayvon Martin comparison.”Martin was

Some other small contrasts between the trials could be the evidence used in the trials and the number of people involved in the crime. But the biggest difference between the fictional story and the real event was the outcome of the two trials. Tom Robinson was sentenced to death and was put into the electric chair to be executed even with Atticus’s best efforts and a majority of evidence supporting him. But in the Scottsboro trial, the Scottsboro boys were the first group of black men to be accused of raping a white woman and leaving the courtroom without a death sentence but instead with 20-105 years of prison

In the book Just Mercy, the case of Walter McMillian and the case of Tom Robinson in To Kill A Mockingbird have various similarities in the way their trials developed. They were both convicted of a crime against a woman, the white people were certain they were guilty, and their lawyers worked hard to prove their innocence. There is significant information in To Kill a Mockingbird, that you see in the real case of Walter McMillian, that shows there is definitely truth in fiction. These cases reveal the credibility our justice system and how a town can work together to make an innocent person look guilty.

I am reading the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. This book is about a girl named Scout Finch who lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus, during the Great Depression. They live in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a town where everybody knows everybody. There is currently a trial taking place; Mayella vs. Tom Robinson. Tom has been accused of rapeing Mayella. Tom has pleaded not guilty for the crime he has been accused of. In this journal I will be evaluating Tom’s character and questioning why the Ewells may be lying.

These two cases relate to each other because they both have to do with white on black violence in the forties to fifties. The way these two cases relate, is that two black men were killed because they were black. Yes, Emmett did do something wrong, but he still didn't deserve to be beat to death by these two grown men. Tom Robinson didn't do anything and he still ended up getting killed because of it. There was a lot of racial violence from the thirties through the fifties, and Emmett till’s death help to start the rise of questions on how things were being handled.

Just like Tom Robinson, Emmett Till was just an innocent and generous african american male that liked to help people. The two of them were both killed based on the prejudices that white men had, about african americans being around their women. The only difference in these two scenarios were the reasons on how they came to die.

When you think of the story of Emmett Till you think of young boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman, he never got justice. The same goes go for Tom Robinson he never got justice, he was convicted of rapping Mayella Ewell when the evidence was there for his inacents but there was an all white jury that convicted him. Both Emmett Till and Tom Robinson never got justice , both had all white juries on their cases, both took place in the hatted Jim Crow south. (T.K.A.M. Ch.20)

- “In an act of extraordinary bravery, Moses Wright took the stand and identified Bryant and Milam as Till's kidnappers and killers. At the time, it was almost unheard of for blacks to openly accuse whites in court, and by doing so Wright put his own life in grave danger.”

Both trials were based off of false accusations against black men. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was accused of rape by Mayella Ewell. And in the Scottsboro trial Charles Weems, Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Ozie Powelll, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Willie Roberson, Roy Wright, and Haywood Patterson were accused of rape by Ruby Bates and Victoria Price, a known prostitute. “The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, on the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all Negros lie, that all Negros are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber” (Lee 204). This quote was stated by Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird in the court and he is stating the beliefs of most people in the south during the Great Depression. These trials took place during a time of segregation and racism so most people took the side of the white women. Both of the juries and judges for these trials were white. Because of this, the accused had no chance of getting equal treatment or justice. The last and most important similarity between the Tom Robinson trial and the Scottsboro trial is the similarities within the court.

When Tom Robinson was convicted of a crime and sent to a trial that he had no chance at winning, he had lost any bit of innocence that he would ever get. In a time where the black community faced constant prejudice and discrimination, it was near impossible for any African American to be let off as innocent for any crime. And the sad part to it is that a lot of the blacks sent to trials and jail weren't even guilty of any crime at all, they were innocent. Tom Robinson was sent to a trial for the rape and beatings of Mayella Ewell. No one believed Tom on his innocence and when Atticus, his lawyer at the case, hands down proved his innocence, he was still going to be convicted as guilty. If it had come down to where they had to sit in front of another jury and do the same thing over and prove his innocence again, he still would probably be convicted as a guilty man. In the end Tom would be sentenced as guilty on not fact, or logic but by wrong prejudice ideas. With the broken judicial system and sideways beliefs of the time Tom Robinson lost any little hope he could ever wish for, he was completely stripped of his innocence.

Tom Robinson is an example of a mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson was a black man in 1930, therefor it was unfair from the start. Tom Robinson was nothing but a kind man, he never harmed anyone. Tom saw Mayella struggling around the house. Her father was a drunk that left her to fend for her and the children. She did her best but once in awhile when Tom was passing by the EWell house Mayella would invite him inside the fence to see if her would help her with little tasks. One day she invited him inside to fix a door. When he got inside to fix the door her found there was nothing wrong with the door. That is when Mayella kissed Tom, however Tom is wrongfully charged with rape.

Furthermore, both text have events that are similar which explore the theme of prejudice. In both stories there are two court scenes one where Tom Robinson is trial for the rape of Mayella Ewell and the other was where a groups of white men are trialled for bombing a black man’s house. “In this country, courts are the great levellers and in our courts all men are created equal.” However Tom Robinson was innocent but only could get another trial and the white men were guilty but had their sentence suspended. “In our courts when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s the white man