Lately in ELA class we have been reading a lot of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout is a little girl who lives in sleepy Macomb, Alabama with her brother and her father, Atticus. Scout is also friends with Dill who comes to Macomb in the summer. Boo Radley is a mysterious neighbor of Scout who everyone thinks he is dead. Atticus who is a lawyer is called to defend a black man named Tom Robbinson who allegedly raped a poor nineteen year old girl who has no friends. The courthouse is packed when Jem, Dill, and Scout sneak away from their aunt and arrive at the courthouse. The judge has a weird habit of eating cigars. Jem and Scout go up to the black balcony where they sit in the front with Reverand Sykes who is a black pastor at the church that Calpurnia goes to church. Atticus asks the girl's father to write his name and finds out that he is left handed. This means that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up her daughter because all of her bruises and scrapes are on the right side of her body. The girl explains that Mr. Robbinson came into her house and raped her. When Tom stands up he shows that his left arm is crippled due to a farming accident. This shows that Mr. Robbinson couldn't have raped her because he was crippled. Tom explains that he came inside of her house because he called her in to grab a box from the top of the cabinet. When he did this the girl hugged him and kissed him. The father saw this and yelled at the girl. But while this was happening, Tom ran away. Even though everyone thought he would win, Atticus somehow lost the case and Atticus was sent to anothe jail. This upset me because he was obviously innocent.
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