How Did Tom Robinson Judge In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Don’t Judge Other People

In To Kill A Mockingbird we learn not to make assumptions about anyone until you have walked in their footsteps or have experienced their life. Harper Lee wrote a story centered on a family that consisted of Atticus, Jem, and Scout Finch. Jem and Scout are brother and sister and Atticus is their father. They all lived in Maycomb, a town in Alabama, it is a town full of racists and prejudices so much in fact, they had lynch mobs. The Finch family was a mostly kind family, with the exception of Scout, so Atticus never usually attended Lynch mobs. Atticus was a lawyer who, at the time, was defending an African-American man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of assaulting and raping Mayella Ewell. Robinson was found guilty even though there was strong reason for him to have been found not guilty. While Robinson was on his way to the jail house he tried to escape. Instead of trying to chase him or catch him one of the cops shot at him just to hurt him, but ended up killing him. All of this could have been avoided if the jury and the other defendant had not judged Tom from the moment they saw him because he had dark skin instead of light skin.
Tom Robinson was wrongly judged because of his skin color. Atticus is defending Tom ,everyone was calling him a “nigger lover” (Lee, 83). Like when Francis called out …show more content…
Atticus was trying to save a man that did not have a chance of being saved, “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” (Lee, 244). We do not know for sure whether or not Ewell did anything to her, but if he did, then maybe if Robinson were a “normal” white man than the trial wouldn’t even had happened. If only Robinson had been a white man instead a black
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