After reading Mayella's testimony, what are your reactions to what Mayella claimed happened?
How would Mayella's confession that she was attracted to a negro cause a change in how she's viewed by the people of Maycomb?
I was pretty shocked but awed because of the way she was acting: exhausted and very sensitive. In chapter 18, it says she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became what she was, a thick bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor. This tells me that something very crazy was going to happen. She claimed he chocked her to the ground, and raped her. I didn't believe her claim because of the way she wanted the people to feel sorry for her by the way she kept on looking shocked and scared. If she said she was attracted to her I think the people would have been angry at her. She probably would have gotten claimed disowned and probably the most hated person in Maycomb
I don't get what you being shocked have to do with Mayella claiming what happen but I like how you explained how mayella's confession in how she's viewed by the people.
In the story to kill a mokingbird by Harper lee my reactions for reading mayella's testimony towards what she claimed happen is very shocking to me because I don't get why a black man getting treated so nice by someone like Mayella would take advantage of that by raping her but I guess he did it because the fact that he is much lower than Mayella as a black man and she is white and so he was mad about that and raped her.also mayella's confession that she was attracted to a black negro cause a change in how she's viewed by the people of Maycomb because a white successful woman that is very povertous being in love with a man that is very lower than her and is black with it too would seem very strange to some people.
After reading Mayella's testimony I was totally flabbergasted that the audience and jury would still believe her ,the story wasn't adding up. Atticus states "He blacked your left eye with his right fist?" Mayella replies "I ducked and it--it glanced, that's what it did. I ducked and it glanced off." Mayella had finally seen the light. Mayella knew she finally got caught up. But the shocking thing was that even after the people and the jury heard and witnessed it they still felt pity for Mayella.
After reading Mayella testimony my reaction to what she claimed what had happened was that I was very baffled about what she said because she had very bad language academics and that see was saying one thing that was different from another and changing what she said. I think that Mayella confession for being attracted to Tom would be very shocking because on chapter 19-20 the people in Maycomb was vey mad that Atticus was defending a negro and that's how they are going to do Mayella treat her like they did to Atticus and that they would start to believe that all of what she had claim is not true.
I was pretty shocked but awed because of the way she was acting: exhausted and very sensitive. In chapter 18, it says she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became what she was, a thick bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor. This tells me that something very crazy was going to happen. She claimed he chocked her to the ground, and raped her. I didn't believe her claim because of the way she wanted the people to feel sorry for her by the way she kept on looking shocked and scared. If she said she was attracted to her I think the people would have been angry at her. She probably would have gotten claimed disowned and probably the most hated person in Maycomb
ReplyDeleteI don't get what you being shocked have to do with Mayella claiming what happen but I like how you explained how mayella's confession in how she's viewed by the people.
DeleteIn the story to kill a mokingbird by Harper lee my reactions for reading mayella's testimony towards what she claimed happen is very shocking to me because I don't get why a black man getting treated so nice by someone like Mayella would take advantage of that by raping her but I guess he did it because the fact that he is much lower than Mayella as a black man and she is white and so he was mad about that and raped her.also mayella's confession that she was attracted to a black negro cause a change in how she's viewed by the people of Maycomb because a white successful woman that is very povertous being in love with a man that is very lower than her and is black with it too would seem very strange to some people.
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DeleteAfter reading Mayella's testimony I was totally flabbergasted that the audience and jury would still believe her ,the story wasn't adding up. Atticus states "He blacked your left eye with his right fist?" Mayella replies "I ducked and it--it glanced, that's what it did. I ducked and it glanced off." Mayella had finally seen the light. Mayella knew she finally got caught up. But the shocking thing was that even after the people and the jury heard and witnessed it they still felt pity for Mayella.
ReplyDeleteI agree I dislike how Mayella is the one who is caught up in a lie and yet the jury still believes them.
DeleteAfter reading Mayella testimony my reaction to what she claimed what had happened was that I was very baffled about what she said because she had very bad language academics and that see was saying one thing that was different from another and changing what she said. I think that Mayella confession for being attracted to Tom would be very shocking because on chapter 19-20 the people in Maycomb was vey mad that Atticus was defending a negro and that's how they are going to do Mayella treat her like they did to Atticus and that they would start to believe that all of what she had claim is not true.
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