TKAM, again.

The trial in the movie was very different from the book, but I think it was easier to understand the one from the movie. In the movie, you can see how nervous Mayella is when she is testifying. You can also see how Mr. Ewell is sort of disgusted by Mayella when Tom Robinson is testifying. I think that Mayella is so nervous whilst testifying because she knows that she's lying and that an innocent man will most likely be killed because of her embarassment. When the verdict was given at the end of the trial scene, Tom was crushed. I think that because Atticus was his lawyer, he actually believed that he might have won. Although he should hav ewon, I wasn't shocked that he didn't. That's because he is a black man and Mayella is a white female, eventhough she is in the Ewell family(the lowest white family in Maycomb) she is still a white woman.