How Is Mayella Powerful In To Kill A Mockingbird

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1.Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, is both a heartwarming and heartbreaking story.This story will go thru trials and tribulations and racism, and all in the end it determines what color you are. The key characters are mayella ewell and tom robinson. Tom robinson was falsely accused of raping mayella ewell and now he is facing time in jail.The real question is : is mayella powerful? Power is the ability to control ones own life or the lives of others. Mayella can control her life a little with her race,but has no control within her gender and class.
2.Mayella race gives her power. In court mayella is automactically gives her respect because of her race . but when tom robinson testifies he is shown disrepect by being called

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