Tom Robinson' s mistake on the stand is complicated he is not guilty of anything this can be hard on him to be humiliated in front of the whole town where he has lived all of his life; people are accusing an innocent man for raping Mayella Violet Ewell, Tom is accused of this from Mayella's lies an innocent man is killed for no reason.

The book To Kill A Mocking Bird is divided into two parts because the first half of the book is explaining the characters and how they are living in the 1930's, the second part is about the court case against Tom Robinson.