These chapters were VERY interesting since it was all about Tom Robinsons case.

It was shocking that nobody brought a doctor for Mayella Violet Ewell when she’s was supposedly attacked/raped. They were too occupied to accuse Tom Robinson then to care about Mayella bruises.  What I liked the most was what Atticus did with Mr. Robert E. Lee Ewell. He found that Mr. Ewell was left handed and that he has a very NASTY temper when he’s wasted/drunk. Mr. Ewell is a HUGE fibber too since he would accuse someone over what he did in anger to his children. Mayella to me is one LONELY person since she never had any friends, she thought Atticus was macking fun of with her but he wasnt, and she wasn’t around anyone her on age. It was nice of Tom to help her out for free since I would do the same thing for someone as lonely as her. I don’t blame her for lying to everyone about what happened since I would be scared too if my father, during those times, found out that I was hitting on a negro man. I agree with what Tom Robinson was sayin cause how could he have hurt Mayella when his left arm was damaged from a cotton gin(a machine for separating seeds, husks, and other unwanted material from cotton fiber) when his was little. He may be strong enough to chop up a chiffarobe(I think it’s a log, not really sure) but I don’t think he could use his left so much since he seemed off balance when he was standing up in the courtroom. It’s a good thing Tom ran off when Mr. Ewell came out of nowhere blazing mad that his daughter just kissed a negro man, I would have never stayed if that happened.

-Rebecca

Chapter seventeen to twenty had been another great chapter to my opinion.   I had really liked the overall plot of how Atticus persecutes all of the witness even ones that were not his own with equality and shows different ways to try and help his case unlike of how Mr. Glimer who constantly gives crude remarks that are unkind and show inequality. He would not be one of my favorite characters because he seems to be only judging by color. Also, I think that after hearing both of the cases it seems to me that Tom Robinson had seemed innocent and Mayella who had gone on a crazy rant had been lying. Also I like how Atticus is very smart when he is trying to show his innocents like how he had shown that Mayella had got beaten by someone with a left hand which could not of been Tom because his left arm is crippled.

            Also this shows that Atticus is a good lawyer and I think that Dill had been very considerate of the situation that he would cry of the injustice remarks of Mr. Glimer. I think that what Tom Robinson said was most likely true and that the person who had beaten her was her father.  I hope that in the next chapter that Mayella will tell the truth so that we will really know what happened at the scene of the crime. Although if she is lying and her father was the one who had beaten her she might be too scared to say.  Or she might burst out and say that it was true after Atticus says that she had tried to cover her guilt and send it away for breaking their unspoken law.

                                                   ~C.P -.-