At the point where Mr. Tate is seated on the witness chair, explaining what had happened in his eyes, Atticus spotted that Mr. Tate switched the injured eye Ms. Ewell possessed. Attentively Atticus picked out the perfect moment to make Mr. Tate reconsider what he had recently spoken. In such convenient moments, presumptions were used to verify to the jury that Tom Robinson was not guilty.
Atticus has the ability of convincing people, of thinking as quick as possible to be confident in what to say intelligently and of attentively presenting his mind and patience to the judge and jury.
Gilmer, the opposing lawyer, I would consider only on 6 of 10. He might have won the court case and completed his job, but certainly only through the racism present at that time.
I would rate Gilmer as not Persuasive, not confident, and not very quick thinking either. He was prepared for the case and also planned and organized to consider himself speaking the truth, which eventually he presented bad and still won. He was calm through parts were Atticus was not active but otherwise he knew that Atticus was persuading the jury to an extend, making him fell a slight cool running down his back
Gilmer was attentive, according to me, at every single second, even a little more than Atticus in fact, because he knew that he was playing the story to Judge Tailor and the jury.
Gilmer did not use much of his intelligence or did not possess any more.
It appears that way through several nervous moments when Atticus went as deep as possible to find a way to reveal the truth to more the people, then actually the jury since I think at that moment he new already the he might not win the case.
Gilmer’s past records are quite equal to Atticus’s through what I could find out about him in the novel itself.
Individually, and probably everyone reading this novel agrees, that the effort and intelligence invested by Atticus was more convincing and of course more truthful than Gilmer’s. The only little small-minded thing known as racism, which was strongly found around the world at that part of the history, helped Gilmer beat Atticus in a hard struggle of saving a peaceful mockingbird.
