Zoe Braiterman
11/30/06
Reading
Mr. Beich
Tom Robinson's Trial From the Point of View of Marcia
"Tom Robinson did it, he took advantage of me!" Ain'tcha got anythin' else to say. That white brat, Mayella's, gotta explain herself. We all know her darlin' pa was the one. Even the rest of us colored folks could spare some detail of a man rapin' us.
Who'm I kiddin'? She ain't gonna do nothin' to take sides with no man o' color. No'n else in this bundle of cat scratch of our Maycomb County's gonna help Tom neither 'cept that Atticus, but he's weight on the see-saw, he ain't gonna get far. And us, we ain't got no rights to use.
When I tell my friend, Sandra, she'd snap somethin' like, "We just the junk yard in the town, Marcia. Go and find some land where the fairies are flyin' and the dragons breathin' fire. Bet you'll find one rights there."
Heck, they might be right, but I just can't give up. My lack o' rights could last just a couple more years; might be just one shot of an entire war. Nobody knows, not even the white people, but I sure do hope Tom Robinson changes it for us all.