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The importance of her bruises being on the right-hand side of her face is that it shows that her attacker was probably left-handed. Since Tom Robinson cannot use his left arm (the muscles in his left arm were ripped out in a cotton gin accident), the location of Mayella's bruises prove that Tom was innocent. Conversely, Atticus proves that Bob Ewell is left-handed, which shows that Bob was actually probably the one who beat Mayella.

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