Scout’s self-enlightening journey begins when her father, Atticus takes Tom Robinson’s case. Tom Robinson is a black man who has been accused of raping a white girl (Mayella Ewell). Mayella and her family are the outcasts of Maycomb (the small Alabama town where the town takes place) mainly because of the way they live and their unconventional behavior (i.e. the children only attend the first day of school: “ ‘He’s one of the Ewells, ma’am, whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave.’ (27)”) Most of the town knows that Tom didn’t really rape Mayella, but they can’t admit this to themselves because if they did, they essentially would be admitting that Mayella, a white girl, was lying and that would not have been acceptable. They would rat

The realization becomes firmly implanted in Scout’s mind before and after Tom Robinson’s trial. The night before the trial Tom is moved to the Maycomb jail. Jem and Scout see Atticus leave the house and follow him to the jail. They see Atticus conversing with a group of men who appear to be hostile towards their father. What they experience and witness there makes Scout see that people she had formerly trusted and thought of as friends, had turned against her father. One of the men in the crowd is Mr. Cunningham, a man with whom her father frequently helped with legal matters. Scout approaches him and tries to start a conversation with him, first about his son Walter (with whom she attends school with) and then about his ‘entailment’. All of her attempts at starting a conversation fail and she can’t figure out why. She is completely oblivious to the fact that the men are there to harm her father. She simply can not imagine any body wanting to harm her father. During the trial, all the evidence points towards the fact that it was Mr. Ewell, and not Tom Robinson who beat Mayella up. However, the jury finds Tom guilty. From this verdict, Scout sees how unfair the world can be. She does not see this on her own but from the words of others. Jem repeatedly says “It ain’t right. (212)” After the trial is over, Scout thinks that life will go back to normal. She is mistaken in this thought, though. The day after the trial, Bob Ewell meets Atticus on a street corner and spits in his face. The biggest shock of all though comes at Halloween. The school is putting on a pagea

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