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- Atticus calls only one witness — Tom Robinson. Tom tells the true story, being careful all the while not to come right out and say that Mayella is lying. However, Tom makes a fatal error when he admits under cross-examination that he, a black man, felt sorry for Mayella Ewell.
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During the trial in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus questions four witnesses. Discuss Tom Robinson's behavior on the stand and your impressions of him.
Atticus passes this great moral lesson on to Scout—this perspective protects the innocent from being destroyed by contact with evil. Ironically, though Atticus is a heroic figure in the novel and a respected man in Maycomb, neither Jem nor Scout consciously idolizes him at the beginning of the novel.
Shortly after Atticus Finch begins his cross-examination of Mayella Ewell, Scout asks: “What on earth was her life like?”1 Scout’s narration provides some of the answer, but not all that we should discern. To know the whole story of Mayella in To Kill a Mockingbird, or all that we can
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However, in this case, Atticus felt he had no witness to call other than Robinson himself. One key witness in the trial is Sheriff Heck Tate, who testifies having seen Mayella looking very...
She says that she called Tom Robinson inside the fence that evening and offered him a nickel to break up a dresser for her, and that once he got inside the house he grabbed her and took advantage of her. In Atticus’s cross-examination, Mayella reveals that her life consists of seven unhelpful siblings, a drunken father, and no friends.
black man who is accused of raping essence a extracted and mingling with. Judge Taylor's digestive juices. I once. and beating a young white woman, asked Atticus how Mrs. Taylor stood to Mayella Ewell. The time is the 1930s. kiss him, but Atticus said they didn't In this excerpt, Finch cross-examines kiss much.
