Reflection of Tom Robbinson Imaginative Text
Uploaded by blind_ninga on Mar 09, 2008
I observe the lighting slowly becoming fainter and the air in my lungs slowly becoming cooler as two guards escort me towards an empty cell. The smell of something rotting is getting stronger and it is slowly becoming unbearable. The guards and I stop at what looks like to me, one of the smallest cells in the prison. “Common Nigger” say’s one of the guards, while his eyes pierce into my soul with antagonism. I move into the cell and stand there for a short period, while I look around to see if anyone else is in the cubicle with me. The guards lock my cold and lifeless cell and depart back up the way they came.
I turn and look for a seat or a bed to sit down on but all I see is a rusted ledge as long as the cell. As I sit on the ledge, I feel as if I were sitting down on a cold slab of frost. My body temperature starts to decrease, yet my heart beat starts to increase. My head feels like it is about to burst, and my destiny slowly feels like it is coming to an end. As I’m sitting down I picture the town in my mind. I see a small community full of depression which has a restriction between the communication of black folks and the white folks.
The Negro society is classed lower than the White populace on the rungs of the town’s social ladder. No matter how rich the Negro race is, in a white man’s eyes, we are below the lowest member of the white society. Realising this, I see that the Negro population in the town is marginalised because the White population in the town, values white supremacy to a great extent and believes that the Negro society should be lower than them because in one point of time the Black folks were slaves for them.
I understand now why the verdict of my trial stated was opposite to reality. It was because the jury just could not admit a black man was innocent. They had to say that I was “guilty” because they favoured white people. I am sure if the verdict of the trial stated that I was innocent, it would have caused great catastrophe for the white population, because they would be seen by the Negro society as an untruthful...