Mockingbirds are innocent in the sense that they do nothing wrong, but yet they are destroyed by vicious gossip and painful actions. Tom Robinson was seen as guilty and destroyed by false accusations, leading him to an early death. Boo Radley is seen as a fearful, dreadful person through town gossip and put through years of torment from Maycomb citizens. In the end, Boo finds the courage to leave his house to save Jem, only making rumours start again. Tom and Boo are both social outcasts, yet live in completely separate worlds.
Even though all of the jury were racist, some members of Maycomb County began to see that the unfair way in which they treated the Negroes was wrong. Heck Tate, the town sheriff, lied under oath in court in favour of Robert Ewell and as a result Mr Ewell was set free of charge and Tom Robinson was sentenced to death. When Mr Ewell attacked Jem and Scout with a knife and attempted to kill them, Boo Radley saves their lives by driving the knife under Mr Ewell’s ribcage killing
This lead the jury to declaring Tom guilty, despite there being no doubt of his innocence. This verdict was the act of slaying a mockingbird; he was nothing but kind hearted, yet discriminatorily lost his life due to the town’s predisposition towards his skin
Arthur Radley is later called a mockingbird by Scout, after she realizes that bringing him to court for saving her and her brother by stabbing Bob Ewell would be similar to shooting a mockingbird. Taking this man who has only ever done good for the two children, and dragging him out of his comfort zone to be tried for a crime that did away with one of the town’s worst, and protected some of the town’s
Sociology 111 Extra Credit The Confessions is a video that is about four U.S navy sailors that are arrested for the murder and rape of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Based on this video all men are also interrogated, have negative DNA results, and have no evidence regarding this crime scene. Daniel Williams, Joe dick, Derek trice and Eric Wilson were all charged with the murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Although all four men stories were completely different, they all signed a confession form out of fear of the death penalty and the jury didn’t believe them. So they were all found guilty.
Just yesterday, he had done another act which is hideous of mankind, taking revenge on Atticus Finch’s children, Jeremy Finch and Jean Louise Finch. Do we really need to sacrifice so much for this step? Tom Robinson who was charged guilty as recently been shot in his attempt to escape from prison and Jeremy Finch was injured with a broken arm as a result of Bob Ewell’s surprise attack. What is comforting might be the news of Bob Ewell’s death as he was pronounced dead by Mr Heck Tate, believed to have fallen on to his knife. However, this just adds on to the death toll brought along by the series of
His lawyer was left in an awkward state, he would have to completely turn around his defense case to prove now that his client was truly insane and only a mentally deranged individual would commit such distasteful lurid acts. Jeff Dahmer took the words insanity to the whole next level. The jury was forced to hear the Dahmer’s outlandish acts towards the victims. For instance how Dahmer kept his apartment crammed up with skeletons, 11 skulls, packages of genitals, and preserved and frozen hearts, muscles, and innards from his 17 slaughtered victims. Dahmer convinced himself that his acts were not sadistic but merely acts of enjoyment.
The authorities disgusted with his actions announce that it was a failure of communication ' and shot him to death . After his death , Dragline immortalized Luke by telling his legend and his blissful escapes to the other prisoners Luke becoming an embodiment of the prisoner 's rebellious desires If Luke had decided to return , then he would be defeated and become like the other prisoners who would need to conform to the authority in to stay alive . However , his non-conformity led to the continuation of Luke the hero and to an ultimate , personal freedom . Luke 's death supports the thought or concept that an individual will not be able to win against the system and clearly shows the violation ' of the human spirit
For example, he is responsible for the death of Mercutio, which causes a vengeful spark to rise in Romeo. After Tybalt stabs Mercutio he turns to Romeo and says, “I am hurt. A plague on both your houses” (121). Tybalt killing Mercutio is one of the actions that lead up to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt had no reason for fighting with him.
It responded “Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master – obey!” (p 173) The creature fled the premises and then went after Victor’s best friend Clerval. He killed him in a neighboring town and left the scene before he was noticed. The next day Victor came to this town and because he was a stranger he was immediately accused of being the murderer.