Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Chapter 18

Choose one of the following questions to answer in a complete paragraph (minimum of 3 sentences). Note which question you are responding to.

1. Characterize ( personality traits, actions, thoughts/feelings, language/speech, and other people's points of view) Mayella on the witness stand. What are your opinions of her? Explain.

2. Comparison: How are Mayella and her father similar? Contrast: How are they different?

3. How does Mayella incriminate her father on the witness stand? Why does this help Tom Robinson's case?

33 comments:

Unknown said...

2. They are both alike in aperence and thoughts. They both hate Tom Robinsen. And they both are poor.

Unknown said...

#2 Mayella and her father are both alike because they both have bad speech and dropped out of school.They both look alike and are both stubborn.

Unknown said...

#1 Mayella Ewell seemed really scared and angry when Atticus is asking her questions about the crime. She was really nervous. She starts to act aggrresively towards Atticus, and starts yelling at him. I think that Mayella Ewell doesn't know what to say while she's up there because her dad made her believe a lie.

Unknown said...

#1. Mayella Ewell acts really nevous while she's on the witness stand. She seems scared and angry when Atticus is asking her questions about the crime that Tom Robinson comitted against her. She starts to act aggresively towards Atticus, and starts yelling at him. I think that Mayella Ewell doesn't know wat to say while she's up there because her dad made her believe a lie.

Unknown said...

2.Mayella and dad looked alike. They were pour and they didn't take baths. So they were dirty.

Unknown said...

#1. Mayella seemed really scared, nervous, and angry, when Atticus was asking her questions about the rape. She starts acting aggresive and yelling at Atticus. I don't think that Mayeela knows what to say, because her dad id making her tell a lie.

Unknown said...

Question 1.

Mayella is really nervous while she is ont the witness stand. She also seems kinda scared, and angry when Mr. Finch (Atticus) is asking her a number of questions about the crime. She starts actiong very aggresive toward Atticus (Mr. Finch), and yells at him.I believe that she does not know what to say becuase her father made her believe a lie.

Unknown said...

#1. Mayella was acting very nervous or scared. She kept figiting on the stand. Then she gets even madder when Atticus starts asking questions about what Tom Robinson had done. She even starts to yell at him. I think that she is plain stupid and that her dad is the one that beat her. I also think that he made her believe differently so that she would lie.

Shelbz said...

1.

Mayella is an emotional wreck. Her language is Englis but her speech is bad. She gets upset easily,

Unknown said...

I answered number one.

I think Mayella would be a nice girl, but her father was a bad influence on her. I bet he beat her all the time. She tried to get the people to feel sorry for her by crying. I think she is really mean to Tom, and a liar.

payton_roy said...

#2 They are both prity much the same from looks and smarts.Niether one of them knows a compliment from a insult.Bob is apearently lazy and Mayella does all the work around the house.

Unknown said...

#3 Mayella seemed frustureated when Atticus is asking her about the case. Then she starts to yell at Atticus.I think Mayella doesnt know doesnt know what to say cause she beleived what her dad told her which was a lie.

Unknown said...

#1.
Mayella seemed really nervous, and angry, when Atticus was asking her questions about the rape. She starts acting aggresive and yelling at Atticus. I don't think that Mayeela knows what to say, because her dad is making her tell a lie. If she doesn't lie he will beat her.

Unknown said...

2. mayela and her father are both poor and are not liked by others very much. mayela does most if not all of the work while her father goes out and gets drunk in the woods.

Briana said...

1.
Mayella was very nervous and figity. She seemed like she was lying when Atticus started asking questions about what Tom supposedly did she started to yell at him. I don't like her very much. She is a liar, you can tell.

Unknown said...

#1 She seemed angry and scared at the same time. She was scared from her father, because he beat her. She was angry beacuse when Atticus was being polite, she thought he was being rude. I think she has a memory problem because she could never keep her story straight.

Unknown said...

#2. They are both the same by the way they think and appear. They both dispize Tom Robinsen. The way that they are different is because one is a man and one is a woman.

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

1. I think she could be a nice girl. If she lived by herself or with the right people. I think her father plays a big role in her life. He doesn't seem like the right person. I think he beats her. I think he told her to say that Tom raped her. But really I think he raped her.

Unknown said...

3. Miss Mayella was very nervous. She was lying about Tom supposedly did she started to yell at him. She is a liar a big mean ol Liar

Unknown said...

1.
On the stand Mayella seemed nervous. She would take everything personal and think Atticus was making fun of her. I thnk she is guilty. I think this because she is unsure of herself.

Unknown said...

#3 Mayella tells them that he is tolerable except when he drinks. It helps Tom's case becouse then they have reason to believe that he could have come home drunk and beaten her. If that was true then that would explain all of the bruises around Mayella's neck.

Unknown said...

Q. 3
Mayella incriminates her father on the witness stand accidentally when Atticus asks her questions that overwhelm her caused her to say things she didn't really mean to say.

Unknown said...

2. They are the same in what they look like and what they think. They both dislike Tom Robinson very much. And they both have very little money.

Unknown said...

#1 Mayella was very nervous it seemed. She was shaking and would studder a little bit. She reminded me of a chihuahua. She seemed like she was covering for someone.

Unknown said...

2.
Mayella and her father have alot in comen.For example teh are both are vary ignorant. But they also have alot of differences. Like mayella whants to have some to be close to.

Unknown said...

#2
They aperences and there thoughts are alike. They both are poor. Both of the hate Tom Robinsen.

Unknown said...

#1 Mayella Ewell seemed really scared and angry when Atticus is asking her questions about the crime.She starts to act aggresively towards Atticus, and starts yelling at him.She told the judge that he was making fun of her because of a case he had before her.

Unknown said...

#2. They are both the same by the way they think and think. They both hate Tom Robinsen. The only thing did\frent is that one is a man and the other is a woman

Unknown said...

#2 they are both alike in apr\erence and thoughts.They both hate Tom Robinson. they boty are poor.

Unknown said...


#3
She says that her dad beats her very hard and mean like. She also tells them that her dad is tolerabel when he drinks and doesn't act that bad. This helps Tom Robinson because it makes them think that her dad could have raped her.

dallas cowboys said...

1. Mayella seemed really scared, nervous, and angry, when Atticus was asking her questions about the rape. She starts acting aggresive and yelling at Atticus. I don't think that Mayeela knows what to say, because her dad id making her tell a lie.

homodog said...

2. they are both alike in apperence and thoughts. They both hate Tom Robinson, and they both are poor