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Part two of my English project based on the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

The following is the explanation that went with the drawing:

Staying alive is the mockingbird’s main priority, but the hunters chain down the songbird with deceptive testimonials, muzzling it with lies. The flood began with Bob Ewell.
Bob came from the Ewell household, the lowest of Maycom society, and he seemed almost glad to assert his authority over Tom by witnessing to the rape of his daughter, Mayella. Major holes, however, appeared throughout his story ripping the fabric of truth. These holes began with confusion over which of Mayella’s eyes were bruised, and why he never called a doctor for her injuries. However, the invisible noose around Tom’s neck drew tighter when Mayella testified that Tom forced himself on her, and choked her. Atticus saw his opportunity and pursued it while the rest of the town stood by, afraid to rebel in fear of exile from the community, regardless Atticus drove on. He stood, lone champion of the black people, and cut swiftly at the noose set around Tom’s neck. He pointed out the fact that a left handed man had hit Mayella, while Tom only had use of his right hand because of a farming accident, which cast doubt on Tom’s guilt. This same disability also excluded Tom from choking Mayella since the finger marks wrapped completely around her neck. This swift turn of events pointed the guilty finger surprisingly back at Bob Ewell himself, because he had previously fathered children with his daughter Mayella.
Tension in the court room was palpable. For the first time in Maycomb history doubt lay in the people’s mind. An uneasy balance between having been taught black people were not to be trusted, and yet seeing a white person blatantly lie caused uncertainty in the townspeople’s minds.
Depicted within the drawing, Tom Robinson again embodies the mockingbird, a symbol of innocence which is to be admired and protected, rather than punished only for the reason that it is a mockingbird. Shown during the trial its wings are unfurled defensively, spread to gain freedom from the crime it unwittingly had become tied into, however, no matter how hard it tried faceless hands shackled the songbird down. In their ignorance the hunters muzzled it, finding joy in pulling the strings which bind it to society’s norms. Battered and tugged in many directions before the crowd Tom silently took every blow of the stinging injustices forced upon him without a complaint.

Description
Part two of my English project based on the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

The following is the explanation that went with the drawing:

Staying alive is the mockingbird’s main priority, but the hunters chain down the songbird with deceptive testimonials, muzzling it with lies. The flood began with Bob Ewell.
Bob came from the Ewell household, the lowest of Maycom society, and he seemed almost glad to assert his authority over Tom by witnessing to the rape of his daughter, Mayella. Major holes, however, appeared throughout his story ripping the fabric of truth. These holes began with confusion over which of Mayella’s eyes were bruised, and why he never called a doctor for her injuries. However, the invisible noose around Tom’s neck drew tighter when Mayella testified that Tom forced himself on her, and choked her. Atticus saw his opportunity and pursued it while the rest of the town stood by, afraid to rebel in fear of exile from the community, regardless Atticus drove on. He stood, lone champion of the black people, and cut swiftly at the noose set around Tom’s neck. He pointed out the fact that a left handed man had hit Mayella, while Tom only had use of his right hand because of a farming accident, which cast doubt on Tom’s guilt. This same disability also excluded Tom from choking Mayella since the finger marks wrapped completely around her neck. This swift turn of events pointed the guilty finger surprisingly back at Bob Ewell himself, because he had previously fathered children with his daughter Mayella.
Tension in the court room was palpable. For the first time in Maycomb history doubt lay in the people’s mind. An uneasy balance between having been taught black people were not to be trusted, and yet seeing a white person blatantly lie caused uncertainty in the townspeople’s minds.
Depicted within the drawing, Tom Robinson again embodies the mockingbird, a symbol of innocence which is to be admired and protected, rather than punished only for the reason that it is a mockingbird. Shown during the trial its wings are unfurled defensively, spread to gain freedom from the crime it unwittingly had become tied into, however, no matter how hard it tried faceless hands shackled the songbird down. In their ignorance the hunters muzzled it, finding joy in pulling the strings which bind it to society’s norms. Battered and tugged in many directions before the crowd Tom silently took every blow of the stinging injustices forced upon him without a complaint.