Thursday, June 7, 2012

In Chapter 17 of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, what did Mayella Ewell tell Heck Tate?

In Chapter 17, Heck Tate is on the witness stand and Mr. Gilmer, the prosecuting lawyer, asks him what happened on the evening of November 21st. Sheriff Tate says that he was fetched by Bob Ewell, who told him that a "nigger'd raped his girl" (Lee 223). Tate says he got in his car, and when he arrived, he found Mayella lying on the floor in the middle of the front room. Heck Tate asked Mayella Ewell who had beat her like that, and Mayella told him that Tom Robinson had. When Sheriff Tate asked Mayella if Tom took advantage of her, she told Tate that he did. Sheriff Tate then took Mayella down to Tom Robinson's home, and she identified him as her perpetrator. After Mr. Gilmer is done questioning Heck Tate, Atticus begins to ask him about the location of Mayella's injuries. Tate tells Atticus that Mayella was beaten around the head about thirty minutes before he arrived. When Atticus asks him how he knew that, Sheriff Tate tells Atticus that Mayella told him that. Sheriff Tate then tells Atticus that Mayella's right eye was swollen and the right side of her face was predominately bruised. 

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