To Kill A Mockingbird - Law and the trial
- Created by: Lucy Jennings
- Created on: 17-04-13 19:29
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- To Kill a Mockingbird- Law
- Real life court trials
- 'The Scottsboro incident'; 9 young black men are falsely charged and found guilty of ****** 2 white women in Alabama in 1931
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- Linda Brown's father, Oliver Brown and 13 other parents tried to enroll their children in white schools. The Government spent $150 on each white student yet only $50 on every black student.
- Private justice
- The legal system was not sufficient to save the mockingbird of the story, Tom Robinson.
- We are never completely certain whether it was Jem or Boo who stabbed Bob Ewell. Harper Lee implies the real issue is we need to protect the innocent
- Boo Radley
- Mr Underwood report's Tom Robinson's death in the Maycomb Tribune, likening it to 'the senseless slaughter of songbirds'- Chapter 25, p.247
- Revenge
- Judge Taylor's house is broken into.
- Mr Link Deas, who gave Helen work, warned Bob Ewell to leave her alone
- Bob Ewell loses his new job, blaming it on Atticus
- Bob Ewell spits at Atticus in the street.
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- Ewell vs. Robinson
- Mr Gilmer addresses Tom as 'boy'
- Atticus addresses Mayella as 'Ma'am' and does not understand the polite language and thinks that Atticus is mocking her.
- Tom uses very polite language, not wishing to repeat Bob Ewell's bad language and instead of saying that Mayella was lying he says, 'she's mistaken in her mind'
- Real life court trials
- We are never completely certain whether it was Jem or Boo who stabbed Bob Ewell. Harper Lee implies the real issue is we need to protect the innocent
- Boo Radley
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