When exactly did Tom Robinson from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, die???

Question

and any other info on the jail name, the number of shots, exerpts from the book would be a great help!!!

Answer 1

Hey Stefani,

To Kill A Mockingbird is a very deep and complex book with many messages explaining the authors’ views on various life themes. One of the themes of this powerful novel is how two of the main characters, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, are compared to mockingbirds. A mockingbird represents someone or something that only helps people and does not cause harm to anyone. To Kill A Mockingbird illustrates how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird by the examples of Tom Robinson and Boo Radely’s life choices and their willingness to help others. The novel demonstrates the metaphor of how Tom Robinson is a considered a mockingbird and one can only be inclined to agree. Tom conducts himself not only in public, but also in private of how to be a decent human being. For example, after Tom was killed for attempting to escape from prison, Mr. Underwood wrote a powerful editorial where he likened Tom’s death “ to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children” (241). Mr. Underwood, a journalist in the novel, shows in this statement that he knows Tom’s death was

Answer 2

this character was fictional.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. Lee's only novel, a coming-of-age story, is told from the point of view of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, a fictional small town in the Deep South of the United States. She is accompanied by her brother Jem and their mutual friend Dill.

Tom Robinson's trial begins, and when the accused man is placed in the local jail, a mob gathers to lynch him. Atticus faces the mob down the night before the trial. Jem, Dill, and Scout, who snuck out of the house, soon join him. Scout recognizes one of the men, and her polite questioning about his son shames him into dispersing the mob.

At the trial itself, the children sit in the "colored balcony" with the town's black citizens. Atticus provides clear evidence that the accusers, Mayella Ewell and her father, Bob, are lying: in fact, Mayella propositioned Tom Robinson, was caught by her father, and then accused Tom of rape to cover her shame and guilt. Atticus provides impressive evidence that the marks on Mayella's face are from wounds that her father inflicted; upon discovering her with Tom, he called her a whore and beat her. Yet, despite the significant evidence pointing to Tom's innocence, the all-white jury convicts him. The innocent Tom later tries to escape from prison and is shot to death. In the aftermath of the trial, Jem's faith in justice is badly shaken, and he lapses into despondency and doubt.


The play was written in 1960 but made to be portrayed during the depression. He would have died in the context of the play around the Great Depression, around 1929-1931.

Answer 3

The book says he was shot escaping from the County Jail. That was after the trial and before Jem was attacked by the drunk bigot, who's name I can't remember

Answer 4

He died when He tries to escape Jail,He got 5 shot

Answer 5

he was shot 17 times for trying to escape because he was sure that he was going to lose anyway. This was after he had been convicted and was waiting for an appeal.