To Kill a Mockingbird Notes

TKAM Chapter 18 Notes

-Mayella Violet Ewell called to witness

     -seemed fragile looking, thick-bodied girl accustomed to labor, look that she tried to keep clean

-started crying when asked what happened

-says she's scared of Mr. Finch

-19 and half years old

-asked Tom to cut up the chifforobe and would pay him five cents and she turned around and he was on her

-seven brothers and sisters

-oldest in family

-doesn't know how long mom has been dead for

-able to read and write (2-3 years)

-asks who friends are

-says father is tolerable except when... but does not continue

-Atticus guesses when he's drinking, so asks if he's ever beaten her

-Tom Robinson's left arm is 12 inches shorter than his right, which showed he was crippled, because it got caught in a cotton gin

-Atticus guesses that her father raped her and not Tom Robinson

-Atticus has one witness