Rocking on my porch, the gossip rolls by like dust in the air. Everyone on the street is whispering about something into others ears. Did a black named Tom Robinson rape a white women? As a white lady living in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression, people see things differently. Sometime the doses of morphine I take affect my thinking. Maycomb is like a divided town right now. Some townsfolk I, Mrs. DuBose can be seen as a racist in some people's eyes. People view me as a mean old woman. To me, blacks are not equal to whites. Blacks serve as maids and cooks for whites and nothing more. Gossip around town is absurd.
I like to stay in my house or sit on my porch and listen to what people are saying. People are wondering if Tom Robinson raped Mayella Ewell or if he did not. People around town believe most of the same things as me. The white community is all on the same page except Atticus who is defending the person that did wrong. Atticus Finch did the wrong thing defending Tom Robinson. He thought choosing this case sounded like a good idea, but he will realize. Tom Robinson is black and if Mayella says she was raped then Tom should go to jail. A white man should never defend a black man ever, no matter what the …show more content…
Black people should never be associated with whites. Mayella Ewell is poor and is not the highest class white female, but Tom Robinson is black. No one should ever go against the word of a white woman especially if a black is questioning it. While laying in bed I realized, on the night Mayella was raped is the night Tom Robinson should have gone to prison. There should be no trial and no chance for Tom Robinson to be free. The color of his skin proves everything. If it was any other colored person it would be the same way. They should be no trial deciding if he goes or not. People can gossip all they want about what people believe, but Tom Robinson in my opinion is