To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 19 Analysis

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Chapter 19 begins with Tom Robinson trying to swear on the bible, but with only one good hand the judge tells him not to bother, and then Atticus asks Tom some basic questions about his family and age. After this Atticus asks him about a previous conviction which Tom is very upfront about so as to paint a picture of honesty, and then Atticus asks Tom exactly what happened. His story goes something like this: Everyday he walked past the Ewell’s house to get to work and Mayella asked him one day to chop up a piece of furniture, but that was last spring, not in November like Mayella said, and several times since then he had gone into the Ewell yard to do little chores for her. Atticus asks him why he kept doing these things for her if she didn’t