Tom Robinson Trial Research Paper

The Trial of Tom Robinson In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, racism is explored, and you are able to consider every factor in Tom Robinson’s trial. Tom Robinson, a black male, was accused of raping a white woman in the small county of Maycomb, Alabama. The woman was he was accused of raping is named Mayella Ewell. The Ewell family lives of the state, or in other words they are on welfare. Tom Robinson was treated with extreme cruelty, and did not deserve what he was put through.

Tom’s whole testimony had nothing that seemed like a lie, or that seemed unbelievable, while Heck Tate,the sheriff, Bob Ewell, father of the supposed victim , and Mayella, the supposed victim, all switched their story at least once. A conversation that takes place between Atticus and Tom, on page 198 says “ “Then you ran ?” “I sho’ did, suh.” “Why were you scared?” “ Mr. Finch, if you was a *ninja* like me, you’d be scared, too.” ” Even though running out of a white woman’s house after being accused of something like that is suspicious, he was willing to admit the truth.

On page 170, chapter 17, Mr. Tate testified “ Oh yes, that’d make it her right, it was her right eye, Mr. Finch.” Another thing that was a bit dragged out was Bob Ewell saying that he could supposedly see Tom on Mayella from the window. If Bob were to come down from the woods and look in the window three feet above the ground and somehow see them on the floor, then I’d be