Point of view

Atticus writing in his journal

I did everything i could, the truth was told but the jury was just to blind to see it. it is a disgrace that they let race get in the way of justice, they did not do their job right. i wish i could do more to help that innocent man. that family is going to suffer now and that is not right. i do not blame Mayella though, she is just a scared girl who is afraid of the truth.

Maybe if tom didn't say "i felt sorry for her," we would of had a chance. the jury hated the thought of a black man pitying a white women. this is just sad, one day i hope trials like this will be handled he proper way. the one thing about that trial that makes me sick to my stomach is that scout was there, at least this will benefit her one day. she was too young to her that, at least she knows the truth.   

TKAM the beginning of a trail

I would take the case. He has a write to a layer and if he believes he is innocent he deserves to be heard. he is a nice person with no criminal record their is defiantly something to work with to help prove he is innocent. he had no witnesses that can say he is innocent which means their are no witnesses to prove that he is guilty. for all the people who would look down on me as a person are wrong, if they don't like me as a person because I am a self respecting layer that is their problem they shouldn't make it personal. i am not defending the man cause he is my friend, i am defending him because he needs and has the right of representation. 

this is very similar to the case of Tom Robinson in TKAM. Atticus is faced with the same problem. he and his family are going to have to suffer social outcasting for defending a black man. Tom is not going to win his case but Atticus as a lawyer needs to take his case. if he didn't take the case he could not be considered a self respecting lawyer anymore. the time of slavery was over and the man had a right as a person to a lawyer. the controversy of this case makes it similar to the case in my previous paragraph.