Mayella Ewell is an innocent young woman who is shown social injustice. Her father beats and abuses her for no reason, to pass the blame he ridicules her in front of the town. "Mayella looked from under lowered eyelids at Atticus, but she said to the judge 'Long 's he keeps on callin' me ma'am an sayin' Miss Mayella. I don't hafta take his sass, I ain't called upon to take it.'" (Lee 182) Mayella does not understand that Atticus is being polite to her because no one else has before, she doesn't

coudln't hold up my head in town, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again.'...'You might hear some ugly talk

know how to respond, except with sarcasm and assuptions. The Judge tries to explain it to her, but she still does not understand. She has never been shown any respect just because she has a bad name.

Atticus does not care what anyone says, because he knows he is right and that soon everyone would relise their mistakes.

Like Atticus, Dolphus Raymond does not care what the rest of the town thinks of him because he knows his ways are correct. He is a social outcast because he is white, but is married to a black woman and has mixed children. To cover up for his actions, he plays the "town drunk", he pretends to drink alcohol from a brown paper bag, but Scout discovers it is nothing more than Coca-Cola. "Cry about the the hell white people give the coloured folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too." (Lee 200) Dolphus has wisdom smilar to Atticus', he can see past judgement but be

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