Sam Bautista Blog Post

In this chapter it was Mayella Ewell’s turn to go up on the witness stand, she got asked by, Mr. Gilmer to tell what happened when she got raped that day, she said that she saw Tom walking down the road, and she asked him to chop up a chiffarobe for her, and that she’ll give him a nickel. Tom then went into the gate, and choked her, and took advantage of her, and beat her. He ran, and her father was over her and asked who did it and she said that it was tom robinson. She then stood up, and yelled that it was that man that raped, beat, and took advantage of her. Now it was atticus’s turn to Question Mayella.

Mayella started crying the judge asked why she was crying, and she said she didn’t want to be made a fool, like what happened to her dad, and because atticus is calling her Miss Mayella, judge Taylor said that that is how Atticus calls people because it is curtius. When she stopped crying, atticus told her that his memory, was a little off because of his age so she had to help him along the way, he asked her how long her mom’s been dead, and she replied a long time, and he asked her about how long she been in school, and she said 3 years, because her dad needs her at home, and that no one else knows how to read or write except her, and her dad, he asks her if she has friends, and she doesn’t know what it means, and she thinks he’s mocking her. He asks her if she loves her father she says she tollerats him, but except…, and atticus asks except when, but she doesn’t respond. He asks her if he has ever beaten you, and she responds that he’s never touched a hair on her. He asks her if she has ever asked him to do any other favors for you and she says she might’ve but she doesn’t remember, because, there were lots of African Americans, so she didn’t notice. Then Atticus shows everyone that Tom is cripple, then he asks Mayella who beat her Tom, or her father. After that question, mayella doesn’t answer any questions.

This chapter was intense, Mayella is definitely lying, Atticus proved that, Mayella’s father beat her, and I am sure that she is lying. It is sad that mayella only got 3 years, of education, you can tell that she isn’t very educated by the way she talks. Like Scout, and Jem, her mother died, which is very sad, and I could not Imagine my mother dying, I couldn’t even imagine It that’s how sad it is, I wonder how Mayella felt while answering that question, I think that she knew her because she has younger siblings. I can’t wait till we read about toms part. I wonder what actually happened, that will be A mystery until tomorrow.