“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” (Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind) Either caught up with the wrong person or even caught doing the wrong thing, if your white you will get away with it. Mayella Ewell caught doing the wrong thing but gets away free. Ruby Bates young and caught hanging out with the wrong person but gets away free as well. Mayella from a fiction book “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Ruby Bates from a non-fiction event can be compare just because of the way society shaped and influenced them. The two girls get away because back in the day “1931” whites got away with everything.

Mayella Ewell from the fictional book “To Kill a Mockingbird” can be compared to Ruby Bates from a non-fiction event to show how the whites …show more content…
For example, when Mayella a 19-year-old white thick bodied girl saw Tom Robinson a black male, she asked him to cut something for him so she got him a nickel to pay him and then kissed him. Mayella was a lonely, guilty looking, dramatic and scared was caught by her father kissing Tom Robinson and then Tom ran away because he knew he would get killed, because whites shouldn’t have emotions for blacks. Mayella then accused Tom Robinson of hitting her and forced her to kiss him but remind you Tom Robinson has a disabled hand, also Mayella’s father is an alcoholic and abuses her when he is under the influence. Ruby Bates a 17-year-old with a little weight behind her, accused nine black teen boys of raping her and her friend. Ruby Bates was quiet, lives with her mom, chews tobacco, lives in all black community was caught with bad