Examples Of Being Wrongly Accused In To Kill A Mockingbird

People have been wrongly accused all throughout history. They might not have even been at the crime and got accused of it. There are three main reasons people are wrongly accused. Those reasons are bad behavior, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and race.

Bad behavior is something most people get wrongly accused of. If someone who has bad reputation gets spotted at a crime scene, then they are most likely going to be accused. Even if they just got there or didn’t know what was going on, they’re still going to be the number one suspect. “I think we should put men first, then subjects after.” (Thoreau 3rd paragraph). Everyone deserves to be treated the same and judge the same. All evidence should be found, then accuse the suspect. Don’t accuse just

because you’re discriminative towards others you don’t like.
Another reason people are wrongly accused is due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

People like this should never be accused unless all the evidence is proven that they committed the crime. As proven in To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom was wrongly accused for hurting Mayella. “She must destroy the evidence. What was the evidence of her offense? Tom Robison, a human being…. She tempted a Negro. She was white, and she kissed a black man.” (Lee 393). He was only accused because Mayella kissed him, and then accused him of hurting her. Out of all the evidence Atticus proves… none of it proves that Tom was even at Mayella’s house.

The last reason people are wrongly accused is because of their race. Whether people are African American, Caucasian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or any other race, they get wrongly accused. Tom in To Kill A Mockingbird was wrongly accused just because he was African American and nobody wanted to see what really happened. Tom should have never been accused for what he did. Mayella kissed Tom and accused him of something else. “She kissed a black man” (Lee 393). Mayella should have dropped the case and admitted that her father had beaten her. Of course he was left-handed after

all.
Whether someone is the victim, the witness, or the person who committed the crime… I believe all evidence should be found before they’re found guilty. Heinous crimes against the so called “accused”, such as their race, being at the scene at the wrong time, or bad behavior shouldn’t matter in a case. People need to find every aspect of the crime and then accuse them for what they did.