This demonstrated that Boo had no connections to anyone outside his house since he was not allowed to have one which made misery rain on him. Lastly Boo was always discriminated and never appreciated for anything he had done to serve society. As the people of Maycomb always on thought of Boo being a bad person, he was shown evidently that he served society as a secret hero such as when he had saved the children from Bob Ewell; “Mr. Ewell was tryin’ to squeeze me to death . .
Davis, author of Race Relations in America, declares, “Mexican Americans proved a further challenge in U.S racial classifications”, Like Indians and blacks Mexican Americans shared being outcasts. The dominant Anglo Americans segregated Mexicans even when they had acquired their U.S citizenship but nevertheless they were still seen as an inferior race. “Many former Mexicans fought their dispossession and became outlaws or bandits in the eyes of U.S officials” (75). Anglo believed that an inferior race could hold of such possession so much land was taken away by use of force. Discrimination played an important role in Mexican Americans during that
They are afraid to walk at night in case they get attacked. I feel that they would prefer it to be how it used to be, it has changed to much. The crime rate has gone up, the fly tipping and vandalism is big in the area, the police and community officers are trying to help the area. Jasmine Ayre mentions something about when the area looks dirty and run down the crime rate goes up and people do not want to live in that area. I feel that’s an inequality, because when people do not want to look after there area or things start going down hill instead of helping prevent it the problems get worse and people move away.
He's my son! He'd rather see these no-good punks than his own mother? You scum…” Mrs. Cade. The reason for his low self-esteem and him losing his innocence by killing Bob is because he has to deal with lack of parental love. The extent of your loss of innocence also depends on the environment you are raised in.
The never ending cycle of the “we got each other’s back” code leads to the tension between the two groups. Whenever a Soc or a Greaser saw a member of the opposing group, they instantly resorted to physically harming him. Gangs today do that as well. If a group of Crips see a Blood all by himself, most likeley they are going to go confront him. Hinton wanted to portray how people in gangs don’t hate each other, but in reality they just don’t know each other.
Introduction: - Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays, Junot Diaz’ Drown, and Maxine Hong Kingstons’ The Woman Warrior all demonstrate different intersections of race, class and gender. Each novel provides a unique perspective of growing up in American society. In Play it as it Lays, Didon dictates a story of Maria Wyeth, a Caucasian wealthy actress, struggling with depression. Contrastly, Diaz’ introduces Junior, a Domincan male, who spent his childhood living in a third world country, and struggles with poverty even after moving to the States. Finally, Kingston shares her hardships of adjusting into the role of a Chinese-American woman in her memoir, The Woman Warrior.
Furthermore, it’s very likely these people just choose to make this child suffer because of its predisposition. “Perhaps it was born defective, or perhaps it has become imbecile through fear, malnutrition, and neglect”. (Omelas, 260). In addition it seems as though the suffering imposed in this story is not to benefit the town but to benefit those who abuse the child through neglect and spectating. “One of them may come in and kick the child to make it stand up”.
To Kill a Mockingbird shows mostly every person in the town is affected by prejudice. 1930s Maycomb is used by Harper Lee the author of the novel, to show that even those who aren’t targets of partial views are likely to have their reason changed by the suitability of being unfair to certain groups in the community and suffer from not being able to openly be themselves in an environment where blacks not a lot of power or hardly any rights, women are restricted to only a small amount of suitable roles, and anyone who does not behave not like the normality of that day and age are known to be excluded and are not accepted in the town. The black society is affected the most prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird with the harsh and unreasonable effects of targeting and dividing others according to the difference of the colour of their skin, which was shown throughout the trial and death of Tom Robinson. Although Atticus Finch capably proves that with injured and unusable arm, Tom Robinson would have been unable of raping Mayella Ewell, Tom is however found
I wanted to show that even though they tried to help they feel like they failed trying to help. The deaths of the innocent will continue, because no one is truly listening to what people are saying, and the sad part is that most people know what happens, however fear is what holds people back from justice. Fear is what keeps people from helping their peers, from helping themselves. The government cover up doesn’t help the people but instead ends up harming people, when they ask for the help. I wanted to portray the fact that people end up getting hurt if they try to
These labels that are constantly put on us drive me insane. There is so much hidden in our family that non-members do not see. In addition to all of these stereotypes that are put on me and the others in my group, I do not like to show people that it bothers me, but these stereotypes have really given me a negative outlook on these people. The stereotypes that have been put on me have made me put stereotypes back on these other people. I now look at the outsiders as "city slickers" or I call them lazy and tell them that they have no discipline.