To Kill a Mockingbird 18-20

These chapters I feel, are the most intense ones out of what we have read so far. To start in Chapter 18 when they called up Mayella to the stand, I knew that this was going to be interesting. Obviously when Mayella was questioned she was clearly lying through her teeth. Her guilt was finally clear Atticus asked her, "Then why didn't the other children hear you? Where were they? At the dump?", and did not answer him nor the questions immediately following. In Chapter 19 when Tom takes the stand I sensed from the start that he was a innocent man. You could easily tell that he was innocent when the Judge stated to him, "Tom, you're sworn to tell the whole truth. Will you tell it?" and then "Tom ran his hand nervously over his mouth". Tom was scared to tell the truth because he already knew what he was in for even if he hadnt been telling the truth. He knew that the jury wasnt going to believe a word he said because of the tone of his skin. But being the inncocent man he is, he told the truth even if the outcome for him isn't good. What really stuck out to me in this chapter though was when Dill stated, "I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that-it just makes me sick". Finally in Chapter 20, Atticus says the iconic speech that makes this novel unforgetable. Being set in a time of segregation and brutal racism, it takes a real human to say what Atticus stated. And every word the Atticus stated was true. What the Southerns in this time period didn't quite seem to understand is that, "All men are created equal". Atticus is the most important character in this novel.