Chapter 17

Jem, Dill, and I snuck into Atticus's trial for Tom Robinson today. Tom was put on trial for raping and beating Mayella Ewell. During the trial Atticus had pointed out that Tom was right handed. The way she would have been hit was from a left handed man. Tom's left hand is shriveled from an accident he had at his last job. When Atticus had pointed that out I was sure that Tom never hit Mayella. 

Mayella and Bob Ewell live in a trashy house. Bob does nothing to take care of the house. The family is not thought of highly in the neighborhood. Mayella does everything in the house cooks, cleans, and takes care of the children. Bob is a drunk and all he does is drink away their money away. Bob doesn't like Atticus at all because he thinks its a sin to be taking a black man's side over a white women's side in the case.