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Mayella Incident In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Tom has to go by the Ewell’s house daily to go work. One day like any other day Mayella ask Tom to come inside the house and check a door for her.Tom went in and relaized that there was nobody else in the house beside him and Mayella.It was on that particularly day the incident happened.As statted on page 225.
On page 256 Scout feels that Mayella is lonely because she is a mixed child,Mayella comes from whites and black people side.Mayella lives in a poor town where blacks live and some white people so whites won’t talk to her.Black people wont talkj to her beacuse she has white blood in her so they put her aside.During the court Atticus asked her if she has any friuends she did not know what friends ment she thought that Atticus was making

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