In the TKAM trial, many different things happened. In fact there was so much to keep track of, my mind decided to kill itself halfway through the trial chapters. Yay! (Obvious sarcasm is obvious).
Anyway, the basic synopsis of the trial is; Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell claims that he herd Mayella scream, he went to his house, saw Tom running from his house, and saw Mayella laying on the floor. Heck Tate claims that Bob came to him and said "A n**** is raping my daughter." Then he went there and saw Mayella on the floor beaten and raped. Tom says that he went there to chop up a Chiff-a-robe. When he got there, Mayella tried to kiss him and do stuff. Tom ran because he was scared of Bob and he knew that this would be tried and accused of kissing her. Mayella said that she asked him to chop up the Chiff-a-robe but when he got inside, he raped and beat her. Also, she was strangled and beaten on her right side of her face. This is interesting because Tom's left hand is injured and he can't hit her with that hand making it impossible for her to hit her on the right side of her face. Also, he can't strangle her because of said injured arm.
I think that instead of Tom being convicted of guilty, Bob should have been. It was him who hit Mayella because he's left handed and therefor could hit her on her right side. He also has the most motive and most capable of doing it.
This can be related to Atticus when he said "walk around in another mans skin." I be leave that Atticus is doing this because he feels sorry for him and understands him because he saw what's going on with Tom and defended him because of that.
Great job meme team, I pretty much wrote the same thing except I put a lot of detail. I agree with what you said about Bob being convicted instead of Tom because the evidence clearly points to Bob but you know this trial was way too biased to realize that.
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