TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD -Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson: Tom is a respectable, humble, kind man whom Atticus is defending against the charge that he raped Mayella Ewell. Atticus knows he will lose because Tom is black, but he also knows that Tom is innocent and that he must defend him. Tom was only trying to help Mayella because no one else would, but she made advances that he refused and her father saw them. She claimed that Tom raped her and beat her because she didn’t want to let her Dad find out Tom was helping her. Tom ...