Summary:
This is an essay about the reactions to the trial in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
'"Atticus--" said Jem bleakly.
He turned in the doorway. "What son."
"How could they do it, how could they""
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--it seems like only children weep. Good night."'
To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee brings out many emotions of truth. Lee describes her feelings about life through the many characters in the story, Atticus, Jem, and Scout. In this novel, a trial takes place. An innocent black man named Tom Robinson is convicted guilty for the crime of raping Mayella Ewell, a poor girl living in the racist town of Maycomb. Tom's chances of winning the trial were slim from the beginning, even though the evidence clearly showed he was.....
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