I believe that the most important part of the book To Kill a Mockingbird is on page 282, when Judge Taylor is polling the jury on whether or not to let Tom Robinson free. I was astonished when the jury answered, “Guilty...guilty...guilty...guilty…” The jury’s response surprised and saddened me as it seemed that Tom Robinson would go free, thanks to Atticus’s defense. Atticus destroyed the prosecutor's case with a well thought out rebuttal; the verdict seemed to be blatantly obvious. But even though Tom should have gone free, he was sentenced to death for something, I believe, he didn’t do. In fact, he was very kind to Mayella Ewell, helping her with chores and other odds and ends. But due to his skin color, he was guilty. The case was decided
Also, by creating a social class where African Americans are always on the bottom even when they are dealing with less respectable people, and contrasting characters, such as the Finches and Ewells, to demonstrate the amount of racial discrimination within the entire South throughout these difficult years for America. Fictional events, like the Tom Robinson case, have similar connections and features to events in history, such as the Scottsboro Trials and Emmett Till case. Harper Lee has used historical events as inspiration to give readers a vision of the lives of African Americans during this difficult time period. On page 282, Tom Robinson was found guilty at his trial, even though all facts and evidence that Atticus gave would have easily swayed the jury to be in favor of Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson goes on trial. In this novel the townspeople, Atticus, and the children's views and outcomes of Tom Robinson’s trial are being presented. There is much racism and hatred of the blacks making the trial unfair for Tom to be seen as innocent through the jury’s eyes because he is a black man.
-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): During this chapter Jem and Scout had found the torment of Mrs. Dubose, who was an old woman who used to yell at them every time they had crossed paths. Jem eventually had lost his temper and destroyed her camellias. As reparations, Jem had to read for her everyday and he had brought along Scout everyday.
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare,” said Mark Twain. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age story about two young children, Jem and Scout Finch, growing up in Alabama in the 1930s and learning what real courage is through their father, Atticus, and the people of Maycomb. They learn to see the world from other points of view, which is also how they express empathy towards others, persevering and standing up for what you believe in, and putting yourself in danger to help others. One message that Harper Lee provides us with is that courage is when you persevere to do something even when it gets more difficult.
Tom Robinson was a guilty man even before he even entered the courtroom; along with all the other African-Americans living in the south at that time. Even though it was obvious that he was innocent, due to the evidence pointed out by his lawyer, Atticus Finch, he was found guilty merely due to his race. It’s pretty obvious that the theme in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is racism and prejudice, and the discrimination of the African-American community was the most evidently shown. For example, the blacks were regarded as tools or objects to be used in labour, and were given very little, to basically no rights. Even in the trial, blacks and whites sat in separate sections, and all the members of the jury were white!
Kyra Raanan Mrs. Corso English 9 19 April 2023 The book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama during the early 1900s. The story is told from the perspective of a young girl, Scout, growing up in Maycomb, and follows her life as she grows up in a heavily racist town. Scout's father is a lawyer who is assigned to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. It is apparent throughout the trial that the person being accused of the crime is innocent, and the trial brings to life the racism present in the citizens of Maycomb.
“ I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” [p.119] In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, this issue is mentioned various times. There are three mockingbirds, Mayella Ewell, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. In order to catagorize them as mockingbirds, the reader has to know what a mockingbird is.
In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children
Innocent Mockingbirds Wanted Thesis: Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley all symbolize mockingbirds because of their traits, qualities, and actions. I. Topic Sentence: Tom Robinson symbolizes a mockingbird because he is not harmful, he is misunderstood, and he is killed over a judgmental reason. A. Claim: Behind his skin color, Tom loved to assist others without a reward. 1. Primary Evidence: He claimed that he would Mayella Ewell without being payed by saying, “No suh, not after she offered me a nickel the first time.
Suspense is what makes a book become an outstanding book. This is why Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, heaped suspense into the book. Interestingly, suspense is defined as a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. Lee uses numerous literary techniques to develop suspense in the story. Two that she uses to employ suspense is cliffhangers and imagery.
In the beginning of chapter eight Maycomb sees a season that they usually do not get, WINTER! It snowed a lot in the town of Maycomb that winter so, Jem and Scout make a snow and dirt snowman, and have lots of fun in the snow for the first time. The snowman that they built looked a lot like their neighbor. Atticus thought that they did a good job making the snowman but then he realized that they were kind of mocking their neighbor so he told them to take it down. Because it was so cold because of the snow most people in Maycomb used their fireplace.
“A man’s skin color has no more significance as his eye color” (Haile Selassie I). Every town has a disease, whether it 's racism, poverty or crime. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” their disease is racism. Racism consumes and blinds the people of Maycomb. In Harper Lee 's novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, the readers follow Scout Finch, a nine year old girl that has not been infected by the disease but is heavily influenced.
Tom Robinson is a young African-American who's been accused of raping and abusing Mayella Ewell, a young and closeted white woman. Racial discrimination is hinted throughout Tom’s trial as Atticus Finch explains to Jem that a white man’s word will always win over that of a black man’s - "... 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" (220). Atticus explains to Jem that in the courts of Maycomb, a black man’s state of innocence or guilt is truly determined by a white man’s testimony.
Scout s ready to fight Cecil Jacobs because he insults her father. Scout has promised Atticus that she will not fight, and he said he would “wear her out” if she did it. Yet Cecil angered her so much she forgot. In the novel it states, “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.
In the beginning of chapter 10 in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is talking about Atticus, he is in his fifties. One day Scout and Jem asks Atticus why he is so old. Atticus says he started life late. Scout is saying how Atticus is not like all the other parents at Scout and Jem’s school. Scout says that he works in an office and he does not work at places like the other parents do.