During the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird most of the thoughts running through my mind involved whether Tom Robinson would win or not. With the continuation of events I was sure of a win for Tom, but how could that happen since he is a colored? Atticus specifically mentions that they weren't going to win no matter what he said because a white man's word is higher than a colored man's word. I think that Atticus is very brave and has to have a lot of courage to be able to go to in front of all these people and defend a colored man. Tom also had to have a lot of courage to defend himself knowing he would not win even if his story was the truth.
I did not feel bad for Bob Ewells Embarrassment of being easily tricked into helping Tom cause my Atticus. I felt sorry for Mayella having to lie about Tom because she obviously loved him. She also had been beaten by her own father and forced to lie about it so that her evil father wouldn't be jailed. I think that even because Tom lost the debate everybody there learned something from it. Atticus had showed that colored people were all not that bad and had made the jury discussion as long as it had ever been for a white versus colored trial.
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