To+Kill+a+Mockingbird

This was a very interesting book, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. It was about a man “Atticus” who has to defend a black man “Tom Robinson” who was accused of raping a white woman. Tom Robinson is a black man who does work for people whenever they need it for no money. He does it as a favor. All the people in the town treat him as an alien “a person from another planet”. They call him a nigger and make fun of him for being black. Bob Ewell called the police on Tom Robinson saying that he was walking home and he said this nigger in his house kissing his daughter. So when they went to court for this, Atticus completely proved that bob Ewell was lying and that Tom Robinson was not guilty. The only reason bob Ewell said this was because he hates black people and he wants Tom Robinson dead. Atticus said “they’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it-seems that only children weep. Page 213. “Boo radley” boo radley is a man who never leaves his house and never talks to anyone. Everyone thinks that boo radley is a scary man and will hurt you if you go on his property. People tell their friends stories about boo radley that aren’t even true. Like a lady said she saw boo radley catching squirrels and eating them for dinner. Also people said that “he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in peoples windows”. Page 9. Scout tells gem all these stories because he believes that all of them are true. All the kids that watched the Tom Robinson trial knew that he was not guilty. They cried when all the jury members said he was guilty because they knew he wasn’t. But they do not understand the difference between white men and black men at the time. Adults know that a black man getting accused of rape is the worst that can happen to them. They knew that Tom Robinson is going to lose the case even though they know that Tom Robinson isn’t guilty. As gem said “well it’d sorta be like shootin a mocking bird, wouldn’t it?”.page 276. In this story it shows that at that time black people were treated very poorly band have no chance in a rape trial. I think that people should look at things a second time before coming to a conclusion that someone is guilty when there really not.