Helen Robinson Trial In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Helen Robinson, an african american who has been ridiculed and harassed by the Ewell family, is a victim a year later after the trial in which her late husband, Tom Robinson, was convicted on false charges. Recently, Helen has had trouble finding a job and is also having trouble taking care of her children who are now fatherless. Miss Robinson has become depressed, and mentally unstable due to the weight that has been put on her back. What is that weight you ask? Well, the death of your husband, a tough time raising the kids, can’t get a good paying job, and slander from the Bottom Barrel of Maycomb, now that’s one heavy weight. The trial of Ms. Helen Robinson should go one way and one way only, this way. My team of attorneys have successfully …show more content…

Miss Maudie is a neighbor and close friend to Mr. Atticus Finch that was the attorney for Helen’s husband Tom during his trial. Maudie states that the Tom Robinson Case was unfair and biased towards Tom. In the Deep South, juries are constructed of mostly all white males, the people that want nothing to do with blacks at all, so they decide to lock them in jail to do so. Maudie also testified that Mr. Robert E. Lee Ewell, commonly known as Bob Ewell, is a poor, depressing, evil, drunk from the bottom barrel of Maycomb county. It is known that Mr. Bob Ewell had it out for anyone connected to the previous case of Tom Robinson. Page 290 states, “this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of his life.” This shows that Bob Ewell had it out for Atticus Finch. Right after the report, that’s when we had received word of Helen Robinson’s dreadful experience with the Ewell family after the previous …show more content…

One, Reverend Sykes of First Purchase Church, testified honestly that since Tom Robinson’s arrest, Helen hasn’t been able to get a good paying job and can’t take care of her kids. Resulting in the town looking down at her, leaving Miss Robinson with trouble taking care of her kids and trouble getting a job other than the one given to her by Mr. Link Deas. Two, Mr. Link Deas, former employer of Tom Robinson, testified that Ms. Helen Robinson walks home and to his place to work everyday, and while on these walks has been slandered by the Ewell family. He also stated that Ms. Robinson told him that many objects had been thrown at her during her walks. Three, Ms. Maudie Atkinson, local of Maycomb County, gave us information to the type of reputation that the Ewells have. She testified that Bob Ewell is a poor, depressing, evil, drunk from the bottom barrel of Maycomb county that wrongly got Helen’s husband Tom in jail by falsely accusing him of raping his daughter who he actually just wanted to kiss Tom and was next beat by her Father for trying to do so, resulting in her own injuries. That also makes him a liar as well doesn’t it? So here we have the word of a pastor telling us that Helen is looked down upon by Maycomb County because of a proven liar in Mr. Bob Ewell getting her late husband Tom Robinson in jail, later resulting in

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