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Mayella Lies In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Throughout chapters 16-23 the Ewells show many ways of them lying. The two Ewells who lie during the Tom Robinson trial are Mayella and Bob Ewell. I feel Mayella and Bob lie to get the innocent man, Tom Robinson in trouble, therefore making up lies is not right. First of all, why would Mayella lie? Mayella lies to protect her father. If she doesn’t protect her father he could end up in prison for a long time, also she may never see him again. It would just make the Ewells look really bad. Like many people in Maycomb she feels a black should never win before a white. So she feels that she has to make Tom Robinson the criminal and get him in trouble, because he’s black and her father is white. Really there is no who did the right or who did the wrong. …show more content…

Skin color should have nothing to do with the jury’s decision or Mayellas decision. Mayella is embarrassed by the fact of being beaten by her father. Everyone in Maycomb or in the court room Bob Ewell beat his daughter. They all know that Tom Robinson is an innocent man being blamed for something he had never committed. In To Kill A Mockingbird they make it a struggle for the jury to choose the right decision of who’s guilty and innocent, or the skin color in which they like or dislike. Mayella lies about Tom Robinson because of her bad decisions she’s made. A decision Mayella has made was just having Tom Robinson doing work for her. She should know better that it wouldn’t settle well with her father. After Mayella had Tom help her get rid of items, she began to like Tom. When Tom would be walking to or from work she would talk to him, or ask for help on

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