As our country has becomes more desegregated, we learn more and more about equality, no matter what your skin color. In the movie, To Kill Mockingbird, bigotry is a huge factor that affects many lives. While watching the movie, I began to wonder how the outcome of the story would have been different had one character’s skin color been white. The movie starts off with narrator talking about a knowledgeable story from when she was little. Her father Atticus, a lawyer, had a choice to defend a black man, Tom Robison, who was being accused of raping and beating up a young white women.
This is ultimately what Atticus was trying to teach Scout through example. Scout was born into a society that conflicted many of the things her father told her to be true. Atticus is who Scout sees as the wisest man. He taught Scout the ideologies of equality and that no man was better than the next. However, the central issue the town is grappling with at the time of Scout’s youth is the rape of a young white woman by a black man.
Atticus is a lawyer and is assigned a case to defend an African American named Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. During the trial all the evidence points to Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell. Atticus made
And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too” (Bambara 77). Here she shows that she truly is tough and she is not just talk. The girls back away in fear, too intimidated to respond to her challenge. This story is narrated by Squeaky, whose main responsibility in her family is taking care of Raymond, her mentally disabled older brother. She explains that many people insult Raymond, referring to him as her “little brother,” but she tries to hold herself above the taunts (Bambara 75).
Racism and prejudice inside and outside, same races, and schools still happen today. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there was a lot of racism in and out of the schools. As we both know Tom Robinson was accused of rape from Mayella Ewell. But in the court room when the judge is speaking to Tom, we as an audience realize that he did not rape her. From her story to the scar nothing matches up to what she is saying, but because he had an all white jury, they found him guilty.
Both the children went through a hard childhood with discrimination a big part of their life’s and just a regular day could have had a life altering change. When Jem and Scout get something wrong thrown in front of them like discrimination, hate, violence they both have their own ways to deal with these conflicts which say a lot about their personality and character. Scout likes to get down and dirty when she tries to solve something because she gets into a lot of fights at school and she doesn’t see anything wrong with that, and she isn’t afraid to tell the obvious when she is in a conflict. This shows Scout is a very independent person and can defend herself for the most part. Jem on the other hand likes
The film is narrated in the view of scout as a 10-year-old girl. At that time, Atticus was appointed by the court to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who has been accused of raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although many people didn’t approve of Atticus defending the black man, Atticus agreed to defend him. This shows that Atticus isn’t a person who takes skin color into account but he treats people as how they are. However, due to this, the other children taunt the children in school, resulting in scout having fights with them; meanwhile, Atticus had an unpleasant encounter with a group of white men who were planning on lynching Tom Robinson.
Then there is a successful black TV director Cameron, whose wife was humiliated by racist police officer John Ryan, who at the end turns out to be a loving son of his very sick father. We also see Farhad, Persian convenience store owner, who gets discriminated on a regular basis by being confused with Arab. Farhads store gets robbed and he turns his anger onto Mexican locksmith Daniel, who actually tried to prevent this. As we follow the characters stories and see them “bump into each other”, the question arises “Do people have to come to certain critical point to realize the simple truth?” Further I will try to answer this question based on the movie and my own personal English 101 Essay 2 03/25/08 Student: Evgeniya Dmitrieva Instructor: Christy Diulus Page 2 opinion by comparing two characters: officer John Ryan and Farhad, who both have to go thru life changing
The children soon become obsessed with their mysterious, reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley. While they unsuccessfully try to get Boo out of his house, Boo has a series of anonymous encounters with Jem and Scout. Meanwhile, Atticus, a distinguished lawyer, agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. This decision turns his children into targets of abuse from their friends and relatives. Despite Atticus’s powerful arguments for Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts the black man.
ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: Physical punishment “works” in the sense that it may stop a child from misbehaving but adults who frequently spank and hit are also teaching their children that violence is a good method of accomplishing a goal. Non-violent methods are a more effective way of training children. “FAVOUR” We have all encountered this classic scene: A five year-old child is standing in the middle of a department store throwing a complete temper tantrum demanding a toy. His mother, exasperated threatens him with time-outs and other deprived privileges, but the stubborn child continues to kick and scream. In the "old days," a mother wouldn't think twice about marching the defiant child to the bathroom and giving him a good spanking to straighten him out, but these days, parents have to worry about someone screaming child abuse.