To Kill A Mockingbird Dbq Analysis

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Power is something that you can use physically and mentally not only on yourself but on other people. There was a rape trial between Tom Robinson and Mayella Ewell and Tom was convicted; to bad he was completely innocent. Mayella does not have power when it comes to her class and gender, but when it comes to race; because she is white she is white she has more power than Tom. For example, Mayella is a female and males had more power during that time period because they were stronger and more dominate, she is also in the lowest class because she is poor, therefore leaving her power only in race because she is white. During this 1930’s you needed to have class meaning how rich you were and Mayella was poor. In one document it says “Mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean…(Doc.A)” this shows us that even though …show more content…

First it shows power when the document says “The old Mr.Gilmer doin’ him thataway, talking so hateful to him...The way that man called him boy all the time an’ sneered at him…’well Dill, after all he’s just a Negro…(Doc.C)” this shows that Mr.Gilmer was being really rude to Tom by calling him “boy” so much. Another example is when Jem was talking to Reverend Skyed “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr.Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…(Doc.D)” this shows that the jury is made up of all white men that will vote against Tom just because he is black. My last piece of evidence was when Tom made a big mistake when he said “Yes, sun. I felt right sorry for her…(Doc.E)” Tom should have never said this because she is white and he was black saying he felt sorry for a white person and the courtroom didn’t like that. I don’t think race should have been involved with this at all because there is no reason someone should be disrespectful or rude to somebody just because the color of their skin because nobody gets to chose their color, they only live

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