Tom Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

In a small town of Maycomb, Alabama a young woman named Mayella Ewell accused an African American man of rape and his name was Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson is in a time where black people were sometimes tolerated, but was still put under as “not people” by other people. Her class made the jury not really give to her side but, the defendant was black so she had the slightest of chances. She had no money to pay for a lawyer and she lived behind the dump so she probably most likely smelt like garbage. Mayella is useless in the case, the only reason she is mainly there is to tell the story of what supposedly happened that night. Atticus questioned her, calling her ma’am and Miss, Mayella grew up in a house where her father didn’t treat her like a woman and said ma’am and Miss to be a smart-alike and mock her basically and she took offense. By the facts that i’ve stated Mayella is not powerful in class. …show more content…
Mayella picked Tom Robinson because he was black and he was not going to have the slightest chance to convince the jury.("Is Mayella Powerful?" 21) Mr. Gilmer(Mayella's lawyer) asked Tom Robinson why he helped Mayella, Tom made the mistake of saying that he felt bad for Mayella a black man feeling for a white woman had the jury outraged. Mayella is still in the lowest she is not powerful in Race. Mayella is scared of her father a man who can basically do anything to her because she is a frail young women and Mr. Ewell is a muscular man. ("Is Mayella Powerful?" 15) Atticus asks Mayella if she liked her father, Mayella said that he is tolerable except when he and she cut off and looked at her father and he had control over her she knew if she said anything else something bad was going to happen to her by her father. Mr. Ewell knew what kind of control he had over Mayella nobody would stop him and nobody cared. Against her father Mayella is not powerful in

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Tom Robinson Trial To Kill A Mockingbird