To Kill A Mockingbird Creative Response

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To Kill A Mockingbird- Creative Piece
Omair Afzali

A stranger in the mirror

The old grandfather clock ticked the lonesome seconds away, while the sun in the background set and the lavish colours of the sky faded away as the first night In Maycomb came to an end.

I had curled up in the corner of the small, dark room with all sorts of thoughts running through my mind. What will Maycomb have in store for my family? Will Maycomb be the place we were looking for? Will I have friends to hang around with? In the midst of all this curiosity I had fallen asleep.

After breakfast, I went out to familiarize myself with my new surroundings. Not long into the adventure, I realised something wasn’t right about this town for the day being. Even for a …show more content…
The tall kid with blue eyes, named Jem, broke down in misery.
He said that an innocent Negro man was accused of rape and is now facing trial.
We headed to the courtroom. Along the way I was shivering, shaken and fearful not knowing the fate of a man I hadn’t seen in sight before. Walking up the stairs and through the front door of the courtroom you could really taste the tension. The bottom level was full of whites so we headed to the top level not wanting to miss out on this rare but unpleasant experience. With a bang of the gravel, the court case started. The Negro man looked very anxious and frightened, but surprisingly that lawyer guy that Jem claims is his dad looked more …show more content…
The gravel hit the table with force, and both the defendant and the victim told their stories one by one. Atticus as they call him proved the innocence of the Negro man as people around me told. Tensions were growing as the jury went to make their decision regarding what they heard. Jem in all this misery visible from his facial expression still told me that there was hope and justice would overpower prejudice. The jury came out, not worried about their decision regarding a precious life. They found Tom guilty. Tom broke down and was distorted. It was a horrible experience seeing him in that state from up here. Jem told that Toms court case was an act of prejudice by the community towards a black. An experience I wish to never face again. At this stage Jem, Scout and I knew that all hope was lost; hope was lost in fair, equal rights and basically in
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