Journal #6 Nararated by Bob Ewell

November 21 last year.

I was out in the forest.  It was dark out.  wright round sunset.  I be holdin manys kindlin for the fire back at are house.  I got back and I was walkin to the front door I looked through the window ta see my daughter kissin a nigger.  And It was Tom Robinson. Everything got dark.  I saw myself beating my daughter Mayella.

"Ahh" I screamed.

I sat up.  It was a dream.  Today was the trial and I was ina horrible mood.  Mayella, my daughter knew what the fake story was.  Tom Robinson raped her after she asked him to cut something up for her.  There were no flaws in or plan.  We could lie through the whole case.  The odds were gainst Atticus and his nigger.  

I hated Atticus. him and his snotty lil chillrin. They be actin like dey know everything cause he reads dem books all day.  Dey don know nuthin bout livin like we do.  I got me a sandwich out of da dumbster and a thing of wiskey.  

Mayella came in da kitchen.  We didn't talk at all.  We both knew that today was the day. We were gon get Tom Robinson lynched.  Those Damn Niggers are always botherin us white folks. I hate em.

Mayella and mes walked to them there court house and waited for the trial to start.  i was called up to the stand.  Atticus asked me to explain the whole story. So I told him.  

One day I was bringin some kindlin home from the woods.  I heard my Mayella yelllin so I dropped me kindlin and ran to the house. When I got there it was round sunset and Tom Robinson took off runnin. Mayella was okay and I went to go fetch Officer.  Mayella was on the floor and she was beat up.  

Than Atticus was askin me some dumb questions like.  Can you read and write?  He asked me to wright my name on one of them papers.  So I wrote.  I used my left hand and he asked me if I was left handed.  I told em just cause I was left handed dont mean nothin.  

Atticus kept on askin me the same der questions over and over.  did you go get a doctor? was she hurt, did she need medical attention.  He than asked me what side the bruise there was on told him it was her right eye but den I realized it was her left.  Atticus was onta somethin but i didnt know what.

Den Mayella was called up to the stand. I didn't listen cause I wasn't interested.  Than Atticus asked a question that caught my ear.  Has your father ever hit you.  Mayella paused and looked at me.  I made no facial expression.  she knew she would get it later if she answered wrongly.  This could give Atticus the whole case.  I had figured out that he was accusing me of beating her up.  He was onto me and it wasn't good.  

Mayella kept on cryin up there. Just like I tol her ta do.  Atticus called up Tom Robinson.  I knew that the real story would be comin but who in Maycomb would believe a nigger.  Tom Robinson came up.  

"He said it like this.  I was waling by the Ewell's house and Mayella asked me to fix a door hinge.  So I went in to the front yard.  I opened the door repeatedly.  Nothing was wrong.  Than she told me that she wanted something inside.  She wanted me to get on a chair and get something from the top of the shelf.  So I did.  Than she grabbed me.  But it was more like a hug.  Than she kissed me." Tom Robinson told.

I was bracing myself.  I looked around and it seemed like nobody had formulated an opinion so far.

Tom Robinson Continued

"Than he said that he tried to get out of the house as Mayella was asking for him to kiss him.  than Mayellas father Bob Ewell looked in and called her a nasty name.  I ran out as soon as I got the chance." 

The questioning went on.  Someone in the stands stood up and said that he had had Tom Robinson working for him for 10 years and he never had a problem.  I had just realized something.  Tom Robinsons left arm was short and useless.  That mean that bruise on Mayellas left eye would be a problem.  How would he be able to rape her.  Oh no I thought to myself.  

Atticus was done and we took a ten minute break.