2006-12-17 05:54:47 · 3 answers · asked by clophad 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Plenty of info about this at www.neabigread.org
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.
Any modern adaptations for stage, or for readers theater, happening? About this one part/chapter/issue?
2006-12-17 09:04:12 · update #1
She was afraid of her father and she was afraid of being labeled a n*****-lover if she told the truth.
2006-12-17 07:40:25 · answer #1 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you notice in the court room when they charged Tom Robinson for the rape and beating of her, which he couldn't have. Notice how when Mayella was describing the beating and the rape, she kept saying him, she never said a name, because blaming Tom back then would have been acceptable, he was a black man in the south, and incest wasn't looked on as acceptable back then even today. Mayella did kiss Tom, because she wanted to know what it was like to kiss another man not her father.
2006-12-17 14:12:13 · answer #2 · answered by amazon 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
to cover up for the fact that her father has been beating her for suducing a black man, she doesn't want to admit to coming on to tom and so she lies claiming he raped her, hence the bruises left by her father become part of the evidence of the rape, and to admit that her father was beating her would seem od as she claims she has just been raped and why would a father beat his daughter would had just been raped.
2006-12-17 14:11:03 · answer #3 · answered by H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋