Accused of being guilty during the trial. Many characters could be picked in the story, to kill a
Mockingbird, but Tom Robinson stood out the most to me. Tom Robinson was born in Maycomb,
Alabama in 1935, he was 25 years old before death. I am going to explain how Tom Robinson acts as a
mocking bird and why he deserves to be the mockingbird of the story.
In the trial of Tom Robinson. There’s a quote that stands out in the case, pg. 220("There's
Something in our world that makes men loses their heads, they couldn't be fair if they tried. In
Our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always win.
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This shows that
Tom Robinson is not in shape of hurting anybody, because while worrying about how
he raped Mayella or not, his arm is crippled and would probably would not like to be
in this situation right now, and would like to live the life that he still has.
Furthermore, As I finish the case of Tom Robinson and by explaining how he is
the Mockingbird, there is another quote that contributes of how it relates to a
Mockingbird, Pg.254( ”His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung
dead at his side. It ended in a small shriveled hand, and from as far away as the balcony I could
see that it was no use to him”).The one who said this quote was Revered Sykes, he was
saying this quote because of how Tom Robinson is severely crippled and his arm has
no use, Tom Robinson acts as a Mockingbird because of how his lifestyle and how he
lives life is very hard for him, but he is black and in the town of Maycomb where
discrimination was a big thing and how they treated him wasn’t equal in the trial of the
court, if he was white maybe the tables would have turned.
Overall, Tom Robinson is the mockingbird out of the other characters. I feel like he