TKAM#6 Tom Robinson

I sat in the courtroom sweating. How could Mayella accuse me of such a heinous crime after all I've done for her. I didn't ask for one nickel from that woman. She never had any help and I was kind enough to help her. She is the oldest out of all of them. She has eight siblings running around. Nobody helps her. She stood there. She stood there and destroyed me. Her daddy was such an obnoxious man. He doesn't know me. Nobody knows me. They just think because I'm black I'm less than all of them.

I don't know how this'll all turn out. Atticus is a kind man to defend me but people around here don't take kindly to black folks. The jury doesn't look convinced by Atticus and when he questions everybody they smirk at him. I've never met a man quite like him. He doesn't care about the color of my skin. He cares if I'm guilty or not guilty. Mayella went on about how I was helping her in the front yard. She said I attacked her. I never laid a hand on that woman. My left arm doesn't even work. I destroyed it in the cotton field. All my muscles pulled out. Dolphus Raymond stood up. He defended me in front of everyone. He's a good man that Dolphus Raymond.He doesn't care about skin color either. He's shacking up with a colored woman and has many beautiful children.

I want to die a free man. I don't want to be in prison for a crime I didn't commit! Why would she do this to me? That's the last time I do a good deed for a crazy woman. I passed by the Ewell's house everyday. I helped her almost the whole time. I could almost tell she liked me by the way she looked at me. I was the only one that was nice to her and this is what I get. I get to sit in a courtroom and listen to a made up story about me.