Atticus's Closing Statement

 Recently in class we had just read all of Atticus's closing statement, and he had done a phenomenal job in my opinion. The jury came into the trial being very biased and are prejudiced against Tom, because he is black. This makes it very tough for Atticus to convince the jury to make the right and just action, by voting in favor of Tom. It is especially hard for Atticus, because it is in the 1930s in Alabama, and in this time and place it is heavily racist and prejudice to African Americans. Atticus knows this, and still is standing up for Tom, which is very brave of him, so far he has been very smart and strategic with how he is asking questions and the way he talks to the jury and the witnesses. I had been a bit to the side that Tom would win the case, because of how Atticus had caught so many flaws in Mayella's story of how Tom raped her. Though after we read Atticus's closing statement I am pretty confident that Tom will win the case, because of how well Atticus had pointed out all the things off about the stories of the witnesses and how in the court we are all equal and that he told the jury to try not to chose Mayella's side, just because she is white and Tom is black.
 What Atticus had talked about in his closing statement was that he pointed out that this is a simple case and it is clear what the right and just decision is. He then goes on to talk about how there is no proof at all that Mayella's story is true, for example there is no medical evidence. There is no medical evidence, because if they really went to a doctor the injuries would probably lead to some else (most likely her father) other than Tom, because he only has one good hand. Atticus tells the jury straight up that if they vote in favor of Mayella, they're just as ignorant and stupid as they are. Atticus says this in a very smart way, by using vocabulary the Ewells don't understand, since he had deeply insulted them, but the Ewells don't know that he had insulted them, because they had not understood the vocabulary Atticus had used. At the end of Atticus's closing statement he says that everyone is equal in a courtroom and that he hopes that the jury will make the right decision, by pushing away the bias and prejudice they have, by pushing their instincts away, and racist feelings to the side.