The Trial

Hello to all you fellow bloggers, it’s Scout here again. So last time I talked about how my daddy, Atticus, was going to be defending a black male by the name of Tom Robinson in an up and coming trial. This will be one of my daddy’s biggest trials he has ever had and if he wins it, it will be a very big deal. So I’m sitting here in the courthouse up on the balcony with a bunch of black people. I’ve never seen the courthouse so packed before! I guess it’s because usually there aren’t a lot of major trials that happen here, mostly things like stealing, and speeding tickets. But this is one of the biggest cases that has ever been brought to trial in Maycomb County that I have ever heard of! Everybody that lives in Maycomb County is here. Families like the Ewells, the Cunninghams, and a bunch of other people. There is no where to sit and people are standing because no one wants to miss this exciting trial. Tom Robinson looks nervous, which I guess is to be expected. That was until Atticus started talking about reasons why Tom isn’t guilty. Atticus made some really strong points as to why Tom is innocent. Points like showing how Tom is left handed and could not have possibly beaten about the right side of Mayella Ewells face. I’m really starting to believe him, despite what everyone else thinks. I think that on the night that Mayella Ewell was assaulted that it was actually her father who did it to her and not Tom. Like why wouldn’t you take your daughter to a doctor after something like that happened, unless you had something to hide that you didn’t want anyone else to know? It seems that a lot of Atticus’s points seem to prove that Robert Ewell might be guilty of a crime like this. But it isn’t Robert up for the convictions it is Tom, and the chances of a white man being convicted for a crime that a black man commited is very slim, so I guess we will have to wait until we find out the outcome of the trial. So until then, hope all you fellow bloggers enjoy reading this and I will write to you next time with the outcome of the trial.