Maycomb County sure is a small place to live, so small you should be careful with what you do because soon every one will know. Down here in the South, most of Maycomb's citizens are just some unhappy racist folks. But no one really sees the life from a black man's shoe.
Now all this drama started to heat up when Mr. Ewell said that his daughter, Mayella Ewell, got raped by a black man named Tom Robinson. Another guy usually gets appointed to try these cases, but somehow the jury chose Atticus Finch, my father, to back him up. I think they saw this coming and probably knew he was fighting a losing battle. Anyways, my father is an excellent lawyer, he taught me every thing I should know, though up to my mind's capacity.
The two witnesses' stories were pretty convincing, 'cuz it was from Mayella and Mr. Bob Ewell of course. They both said Mayella was sitting on her porch not doing anything, Mayella asks Tom if he can do some chores for her (he always does favors for her), so Tom goes in and they say he just raped her right there and she started screamin'.
Funny how every one got so convinced, but when my father hit em' back with that cross-examination, it became clear that they just hiding their discrimination towards Tom but still the jury had to go with what the crowd wants to hear. I say the verdict ain't fair to ya'll black men. It's like if every day they lose more and more respect.
Naw I really don't see why they have to be treated so inhumane. So, Tom ended up going to jail. I remember Atticus taught me that all the jury men are suposed to look at the guilty person but no one seemed to look at Tom. Even so, he ended up going to jail.
I don't understand why people don't see it my way, the way Atticus taught us, what have black people ever done to us? I say this is another mockingbird dead coming from us white folks, another sin committed.
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