“You’re a strong girl, what were you doing all the time, just standing there?” (Ch17-20)
Mayella is the one that is on the stand. What she does is lie to the court and say that Tom Robinson raped her. She’s ashamed that she has to go for a black man and she can’t find someone that is her own color. Her ability to make an innocent man go to jail shows that the town is unable to stop segregation from happening. Mayella is someone that does not have any morals because she basically is an example of one of the forces in the book that is cruel. It seems like she can’t get her story right. This shows the indifference of someone that is clearly wrong, not getting blamed for wrong doing.
Mayella was the one that was in control of Tom Robinson. If she was clearly being molested, she would have done something to stop it. However, the fact that Atticus presents does not do so much to help with her story. She could have screamed or tried to protect herself. However, she did not; proving that her story is completely false.
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I definitely agree with you Lia that Mayella has no moral values. It still can’t hit me that people can lie about something just to save their sorry butts. As for Mayella, if she acted more mature and responsible, she’d get the Mr. Right she has been longing for. As for Mr. Ewell, he should be the one getting sued! He’s a drunken irresponsible father, which beats up his daughter because he feels like it. Why can’t Mayella just say the truth so her agony and pain that she gets from her dad, would stop? I just feel bad for Mr. Robinson because he’s a colored man and everyone has the thinking of: blacks being criminals.
I agree, this is a very good post Lia
. Mayella is lying in front of a jury of people and she knows she is doing it, yet her morals are low enough that she continues. I suppose her dad could be threatening her, since the tone of the author kind of tell us that Mayella’s father is the one beating her. I think Mr. Ewell might be forcing his daughter to charge Tom Robinson for r*pe. I think that could be the case, or Mr. Ewell could be forcing Mayella to charge for r*pe in order to hide that she wanted to have relationships with a black man. Either way, it shows that Mr. Ewell has horrible reasons for making his daughter go through this and it also shows that Mayella is very easily manipulated. I just hope that the truth comes out and we get to see what is actually going on, because Tom Robinson obviously did not r*pe Mayella. Stupid think wont late me say r-a-p-e.