1. The Desire for Sympathy
Atticus elaborates on this idea during his closing argument at the trial saying: "She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time honoured code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with...she tried to put the evidence away from her.... Bob Ewell is left handed and given his violent nature, it is clear that he commits the crime. ... Tom Robinson faced the death penalty for a crime that Bob Ewell commits. ... Obviously prisoners are forbidden from escaping the prison, but his desire to escape is understandable ...
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