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

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