Blog 4: Report on the trial
The trial of “To Kill A Mockingbird”
Well... What can you say? the southern town declared Tom Robinson guilty of abusing and raping Mayella Ewell when the crime was most likely done by Bob Ewell. Mayella was in the wrong for trying to seduce or draw in Tom Robinson because she caused a lot of trouble. The trial ended with Tom Robinson being sent to jail. One day in the exercise yard at the jail Tom was spotted running to the fence when the supervisors shot him senseless. 17 times that was a little bit too extreme, if Tom was trying to escape at least they could have shot him in the leg to get him to stop running, but not too kill him, he was innocent and had a family. This all was started by the mental anger of Bob Ewell... The death of Tom Robinson is on the guilty conscious of Bob Ewell, but will Bob Ewell receive the same treatment of death? “There's a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time”
Like this event in TKAM. Tom Robinson was treated unfairly for being black and supposedly raping a woman, another black man was charged similarly too. Till was a 14 year old boy who was visiting his relatives in Mississippi. He was charged with flirting with a white woman... and later that day he was at his uncle's house when men came and gourged his eye out, beat him and shot him till he died for something he didn’t do like Tom Robinson. Both boys were charged unfairly and justice was not served only death was.
I completely agree. Both boys were wrongly convicted because they were up against white people. The cases never resulted in justice, like you said, they resulted in death.
ReplyDeleteI agree about your point with the shooting of Tom Robinson. 17 shots isn't ever necessary and he was even crippled already. Also your connection with Emmett Till and Tom's situation connects really well, both of them were excessively punished.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with your blog and Orla's comment about 17 shots being unnecessary but lets be real this whole trial was unnecessary. I personally think the whole town knew Tom was innocent but what a scandal it would have been to say a white man was lying. Both boys in this blog were for sure victims of seriously harsh racism.
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