WHY IS HE DOING THIS?
In the book, Tom Robinson is accused of a rape he DID NOT COMMIT. Yet all the town wants to convict him to keep “those people” in their “proper place”.
EVERYTHING in TKAM makes the new Tom Robinson into ZIMMERMAN.
ZIMMERMAN is cracked up to be this horrrible guy, in spite of ALLLLL the evidence, much of which they have conspired to cover.
WHY IS HE DOING THIS....?
Thank you! I posted on this thread earlier that TKAM is actually very conservative, one just has to read it more than once to really see Lee’s innuendo. I was telling my class yesterday, when one of the students brought up the Martin/Zimmerman issue, that the case greatly resembles what is happening in TKAM (we are at the part where Mayella is testifying and realizes her and her father’s huge mistake in their lie). We discussed the “lynching” that Zimmerman is experiencing, and that even if he is guilty of murder that he deserves the right to a trial by jury of his peers. My students, 50% black 50% white, have a better grasp of this tragedy than most of the media elites.