TKAM #6

Dear Diary,

When my dad went to the court house, Jem, Dill and I had followed him to the court house because we wanted him to know what was happening. When the crowd had went down we had followed them in to the court house, when I had went inside the court house we didn't know where to go so we had went upstairs because we thought that's where we are supposed to go. We didn't want it to be so encumbered just so we won't see us, we had also noticed Reverend Sykes and a lot of colored people on the balcony. I wanted to sit next to him because I was scared to sit next someone I don't know or just letting stare because of my race. Reverend Sykes wanted us to sit next him because he wanted to tell us something to we had sat next to him. He had told us that we should be sitting down sitars where the white people sit at, but we had didn't know that we were supposed to be sitting right there.

We had noticed that the judge was judge Taylor, the trail had finally started and Mr. Gilmer, had ask questions to Heck Tate, about what happened on November 21, Bob Ewell told Heck that his daughter Mayella that she had been raped by Tom Robinson. He had also found bruisers and been beaten by him. Atticus had interrupt him when he was talking and had cross examined, him and ask him an question and said that “wasn't her bruisers on her right side on her face and not the left?” I knew that when he had ask that question he wanted Mr. Gilmer took really bad so he can get a good point out of it. Tate had left the stand and Mr. Gilmer was called up to the stand. Mr. Gilmer was talking about his side of his story, and he was saying that he seen Tom Robinson raping this innocent girl. I was thinking in my mind that I want all these people that was lying just to dispelled. Atticus had noticed that he storying was adding up right because he knew that something was making sense. Atticus had ask him some questions about what he had said to make sure what he said was true or not.

The next day we had continue the trial, and Mr. Gilmer had came back up to the stand finishing what was his story about. Atticus had cross examined him again, but instead he had brung up Mayella to the stand to to ask her questions about the scene. Atticus was talking to Mayella, saying that why was she just screaming and she knew that kids or adults wasn't going to do anything. Why didn't she just put up a better fight with him, because she was being complacently. Atticus was telling Mayella, that how could Tom Robinson bruise her on right side of her face if his left hand is useless. He knew that Mayella was going to crack and be so oblivious about the situation and be in a acquiescence. So she did and yelled out that Tom Robinson didn't do anything and she was lying to Maycomb. When I guess she wanted attention, but I guess she wasn't getting that. It wasn't up to Atticus that they may have won, but it was up to judge Taylor to decided but I hope my dad wins the trial because he did make some great points to what he said to all the witnesses.