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This song closely represents the final moments of Tom Robinson’s life. He was just an average hard working man with a wife and three children who tried to help Mayella Ewell because he felt sorry for her. During the trial and in jail he no doubt wondered how all of this could happen to him. How he could be convicted for a crime he obviously never committed and how he was going to be executed just because Mayella Ewell was too afraid to admit that she had fallen in love with a colored man. How could a system that was meant to seek justice and base decisions on evidence be so biased against a man because of his skin color? He probably wondered what caused him to be so desperate that he attempted to escape from a prison with heavily armed guards. Slowly fading away and in intense pain far from his home and family, his final thoughts were probably “how could this happen to me?”