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The trail was tense. The trial was tough, and the results were really quite appalling.
Tom Robinson was found guilty. This obviously was a case of "a white man's word against a black man's, the white always wins." (220)
I aside from racial intolerance playing a big part in the decision, there was direct evidence that pretty much proved Tom's innocence. Tom is a crippled black male. His left arm is completely useless. He is a good man (well, according to Link he is).
"I ain't had a speck o' trouble outa him. Not a speck." (195)
Mr. Ewell is a white left handed male. Mayella was bruised especially on the right side of her body. Who bruised Mayella? Well I suppose Mr. Ewell comes to mind- butwaitno! Not to the jury.
Atticus gave a lengthy overview of the evidence before resting his case (and pending the inevitable). He went on about how Mayella was pushing her own fault onto "Tom Robinson, a human being" (203).
"A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. (205)
The jury took a few hours deciding on Tom's innocence. Atticus said that this was unusual, and that it "...usually take 'em just a few minutes." ( 222)
When the jury declared Tom guilty, Jem started to cry. He had every reason to. How could someone be so unethical, immoral and unjust? All of this is probably hard for most people to take (provided they are not ignorant).
"It ain't right."
"No son, it's not right." ( 212)
With that I end my rant.
“It ain’t right, Atticus,” (Lee 212)
“No son, it’s not right.” (Lee 212)
Even though Jem was young, he was able to realize that the trial wasn’t trustworthy.
Although the Ewells were a disgrace of Maycomb Country they were white. And because the Ewells were white and Tom Robinson was a black man, they found him guilty.
“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it-it seems that only children’s weep” (Lee 213)
Atticus can’t understand why the white people make a distinction. He states that the innocent children are the only ones who feel sorrow about the result of inequality.
Before Jem started to cry, what happened first was when Calpurnia went and gave Atticus a note because Jem, Scout and Dill hadn’t been at home since noon. They were in the colored balcony all the time. Atticus told them that they should go home and have supper. They really wanted to stay and they begged, and Atticus told them that they could come after having supper. Calpurnia takes Jem, Scout and Dill and gave them their supper. They ate fast so that they could go back to the courtroom. A lot of time has passed and Dill started to sleep. The jury said that Tom Robinson was guilty. When they started to say that, Jem started to cry. Jem cried because he thought it was not fair of how the jury took it. He really realized that it wasn’t fair for Tom Robinson.
Jem started to cry because the jury had declared Tom Robinson guilty. For he had hoped and hoped that Tom Robinson would be declared inoccent. In the court, there was so much evidence that he was inoccent. Like the fact that Tom could not have harmed Mayella because he was not able to use his left hand, since it was cought in a cotton machine or something. And it was also obvious that Mayella was lying to the court.
Jem wondered how white men could always win over black men. He also wondered how people could be so unfair and injust. Tom Robinson was innocent, and Jem knew it.
Like Aubrey, Jenny, Nicole, and Isabela said, Jem cried because he had been so frustrated that even though it was so obvious that the Ewells had been lying, Tom Robinson was still found guilty. I think that Jem had the right to cry because it was a really wrong thing for the jury to decide that Tom Robinson was guilty.
As everyone already stated, Jem cried because the jury was so unjust. One thing I would add is that he was so sure that Atticus had it. He was sure that Tom Robinson would be proven innocent and sent home. He actually was proven innocent, but the jury did not give in to that. His certainty was so great that the final verdict really crashed down on him. He was not even expecting them to do that. It is possible that he would not have cried if he had less hope.
Jem cried because Tom Robinson was being held as guilty. He felt disappointed towards Judge Taylor, when Atticus had great justifications. When Tom was held guilty, that was the time when Jem had realized how cruel the world was towards African-Americans, making him feel devastated. He also comprehended that life is not fair, making him feel unsecure. He believed that everything was going be come out right, when it did not. The shock was the reason for Jem to cry during the court.
He was extremely tense at first but afterwards began to uncontrollably sob and shake. When Tom robinson was declared guilty, the there was far more evidence against the Ewells and it simply was not fair. it was not fair that blacks had less rights than white people when they were as nice as whites. It was not fair that Tom Robinson was declared guilty. It was not fair that after all that hard work to get Tom out of jail, all hope had been lost. It was like the entire world was against them and it would never change. The evidence was right under the judge's nose and he took it for granted. Bob Ewell was the man who has beat her daughter and now he was blaming it on an inocent man who never did any harm to anybody. All these factors made him cry.
Jem was hanging on to the situation but afterwards, he could not help it and started to cry. He cried because he was so frustrated about what happened. He felt that it was very unjust of the jury to found him guilty even though it was obvious he was not. He felt that all hope was lost after all the work to prove Tom's innocence. He cried because he noticed how cruel the world was and how racist whites were to blacks. The black people had less rights and this disappointed Jem.
Jem was crying because Tom was proven guilty. Jem started to cry because he noticed the injustice that was being commited. Jem's hopes were really high,and all of a sudden they were crashed. They did not need to be crashed for what he had hoped for, was the correct thing. Jem's cry showed a need of justice and no need to racism. If a black person did something wrong he needs to be punished. If the black person did nothing wrong, he does not deserve to be punished just for being born with another skin color than the rest...
Well this very "simple" question I will answer with my always flawless logic (<-Sarcastic joke...) *sarcastic laugh*
The Tom Robinson trial was one of the most tense, crucial, and stressing parts of the book. I think that Jem had held all that pressure because of the Tom Robinson trial, his dad being called a "n***** lover", other kids picking on him, and such; that he just busted out at one point. I would have felt like that too if something like this was happening.
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