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   esha25 Student
   College - Freshman

   Chapter 17:

   Mr Tate said, 'Oh yes, that'd made it her right. It was her right eye Mr Finch. I remember now, she was bunged up on that side of her face...'

   
   Chapter 18:

   Tom Robinson's powerful shoulders ripped under his thin shirt. He rose to his feet and stood with his right hand on the back of his chair. He looked oddly off balance, but it was not the way he was standing. His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. It ended in a small shrivelled hand, and from as far away as the blacony I could see that it was no use to him.

   Atticus shows that Tom Robinson could not have raped Mayella Ewell as his left arm is useless that is he could not have beaten her on her right eye.Later,he also shows that it is Bob Ewell,father of Mayella, who has beaten Mayella as he has seen Mayella trying to kiss a black man, Tom Robinson

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   mnyman94 Student
   High School - 9th Grade

   The prosecutor, Mr. Gilmer, questions Heck Tate, who recounts how, on the night of November 21, Bob Ewell urged him to go to the Ewell house and told him that his daughter Mayella had been raped. When Tate got there, he found Mayella bruised and beaten, and she told him that Tom Robinson had raped her. Atticus cross-examines the witness, who admits that no doctor was summoned, and tells Atticus that Mayella's bruises were concentrated on the right side of her face.

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   Posted by mnyman94 on Saturday November 29, 2008 at 6:57 AM