Harper Lee

To Kill A Mockingbird

The name of y book is "To Kill A Mockingbird". This book was most about this little girl name Harper Lee and about her life when she was growing up. She was born in southwestern of Alabama in a town call Monroeville on April 28, 1926. Harper Lee was know as Nelle to her friends. When she was a little girl, two white girls in her town said that nine black boys raped them. The nine black boys were known as the Scottsboro boys. So that’s how she end up writing the book To Kill A Mockingbird. The book was about this man name Tom Robison and he was accused of raping this girl name Mayella Ewell.

When Harper Lee was five years old living in this small town name Monroeville. The first trail began the trails was about the two white women saying that the nine black men had rape them. The defendants were nearly lynched before the trail even begins and brought to court. The defendants did have a lawyer into the first day of trail, so they couldn’t even tell there lawyer what all went on. The medical testimony prove that the women had not been raped, but the all white jury found all nine boys guilty and all was sentence to death except the youngest one who was thirteen years old. The youngest one was sentence to life in prison. Six years of the subsequent trails saw most of these convictions repealed, and all men was freed or paroled except one escaped. Later that’s who Harper Lee ended up writing the book To Kill A Mockingbird.

The Scottsboro boys ages where from thirteen to nineteen and was accused of raping two white women, the women name was Victoria and Ruby Rates. The Scottsboro boys went to court they had a all white jury and they all were convicted to death excepted the youngest one of all nine boys. When Tom Robison went to court he had a all white jury and they seen that he only had one arm. That was his right arm and the girl was beaten on the left side of her face. The lawyer named Atticus had the girl father sign a paper and they seen that he use his left hand to sign the paper, but the jury still found Tom Robison guilty for raping Mayella Ewell. (When the jury found Tom Robison Judge Taylor was polling the jury: Guilty…guilty …guilty …guilty…"Scout peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each "guilty" was a stab between them.)

The Scottsboro boys later got an appeal and took it to a higher court, the Supreme Court was their sentences were overturned. Later one of the women denied being raped. All of the defendants were eventually acquitted, paroled, or pardoned except the one that escaped, some after serving years in prison. Tom Robison was the same way he got convicted with a white jury and his lawyer later try to appeal. It was no need t cause Tom Robison tried to escape from prison and got killed. (The guards called to him to stop. They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill. They said if he’d had two arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him.)