Summary: Atticus brings his last witness to the stand, Tom Robinson. When asked what happened that fateful day, Tom tells his story: He was walking by the Ewell home when Mayella stopped him to fix the door. Tom goes in, gets on a ladder, and Mayella grabs Tom's legs, and pulls him down. He is surprised when Mayella jumps on him, and kissed him. She said she's never kissed anyone, and that what her father does doesn't count, so she might as well kiss a N***er. Mr. Ewell sees what happens through the window, and yelled at Mayella. Tom bolted through another window. When asked why he ran even though he had been innocent, Tom replied that it wasn't a good thing to put a colored man's word against a whit man's, and that he ran so he wouldn't be arrested. He made the bad mstake of sayig he felt bad for Mayella. While Mr. Gilmer is cross-examining Tom, Dill begins to cry, and he and Scout have to leave. They run into Dolphus reymond, whom the kids think is a drunk, but only pretends to be so that the whiteys feel better and that he only lives the way he lives because he enjoys it. the kids go back inside, and the jury goes to make its verdict. Atticus finds out the kids had been in the court for nearly all of it, so he makes tham go eat, and then come back. At about 11 at night the jury comes back and the verdict is 'Guilty' which shocks the kids because they are not yet aware that you can't put a colored man's word to a white man's and expect to win.
Literary element: Allusion: "all men are created equal" a line that is in the declaration of independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. Allusion: the O.K. cafe refers to the O.K. corral, where one of the most famous gunfights in American history happened.
New Characters:
Dolphus Raymond
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