I also think it is very ironic that the most unintelligent person on the ranch is the only one who ignores the very unintelligent social hierarchy of racism, which the other supposedly better educated workers take part in. This is because Lennie doesn’t understand racism, he’s too simple and child like, black people don’t seem any different to white people to him. Once Crooks sees Lennie has simply come to speak to him, which
Malcolm X was an articulate hustler in the streets. He was very popular when he was speaking but very frustrated with himself when it came to writing what he talked about. His biggest problem was his hillbilly language, Malcolm always used slang words, and knew if he would write the same way he spoke then no one would be able to read or understand what he was talking about. Malcolm was a very good speaker, people who heard him speak would be in shock when finding out he only had an eighth grade education, not knowing how much he had taught himself in prison. In the Charlestown Prison a man named Bimbi made Malcolm realize his knowledge.
John Proctor is a farmer on the outside of Salem. The people in Salem think of him as a good, honest, upright man but like many he has his secretes. When the witch trails started John knew he could end the trails but did not want to ruin his reputation as well as his name. Proctor knew to stop the trails he must tell the court that he had committed adultery and had slept with Abigail Williams. When his wife Elizabeth Proctor was accused for witchery John knew he must do everything he could to prove to the court she wasn’t a witch and Abigail was lying.
This shows his acceptance because he doesn’t see Jim as a person and he sees his children as someone else’s property, which he feels would be wrong to steal. Although he accepts society’s view on slavery, Huck’s respect toward Jim is shown when Huck goes to him for his help, to find out what Pap was doing in town. Huck’s respect towards Jim is displayed because there were many other people Huck could have asked, but he chose Jim
This makes the reader sympathize for Crooks’s unfortunate life. He is also portrayed as a well-educated man. He seems to have lots of books, including a ‘tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the Californian civil code.’ Even though he has had good education, he still works in a ranch when he could have got a better job. He probably was discriminated for his skin colour and therefore lost his chance of having a comfortable life. This pictures Crooks as
When Gillespie arrested Sam Wood Virgil also proved him innocent. Even though Gillespie didn’t like to be proven wrong by anyone and especially by a coloured person, he respected Virgil for his great detective work. At one point in the novel Gillespie and Tibbs shake hands and I think that was the high point of this noval. Virgil didn’t respect Gillespie that much in the beginning and most of the middle of this story but in the end Virgil respected Gillespie. I think it was good that Virgil did not respect Gillespie because Gillespie was using Virgil for his scapegoat.
People in Maycomb resent Atticus for defending Tom Robinson because there was still some racism lurking between the townspeople, therefore the whites of the town felt they were superior to the blacks and found Tom Robinson, a black man, unworthy of having Atticus, the county’s best lawyer, defend him. 4. Scout and Jem perceive their father as caring and supportive because he is always advising his children to do what is best and to have proper manners. They also think of their father as brave because even though everyone is against their father’s decision to defend Tom Robinson, Atticus stayed strong and never changed his decision. Lastly, Scout and Jem perceive their father as a strong and accurate person when he shot the dog with the first try.
The molding of the men of Police Battalion 101 from ordinary men to ruthless killers is likened to the molding of the prison guards from ordinary men to sadistic authorities. The use of this experiment becomes especially relevant when considering the similarities between the compositions of the participants analyzed. In Zimbardo’s experiment, the twenty-four selected were predominantly white middle-class males and thus relatively “ordinary”. In Browning’s study, the Police Battalion 101 also fit this “ordinary” niche, which when considering their ages, class, origins, and motives, no indication that these men would become mass murderers was made present. They were ‘middle-aged family men of the working-class”(1), implying that they had been exposed to alternative worldviews because they had been socialized before the Nazis came to power and as the working-class, were one of the groups least inclined to support the Nazis.
All of these characters are kind beings and as can be seen by Tom in the courthouse he ‘felt right sorry’ for Miss Mayella. Unfortunately, the idea that a black person could feel sorry for a white person refutes all of Maycomb’s social assumptions. Tom’s omission cannot be tolerated by Maycomb’s current social hierarchy as it suggests that someone is inferior to a black man, when in fact all that Tom is doing is expressing a natural emotion –
His book, about the journey of a little white boy and a nigger, depicted the positive side of the slave but the negative of the white. Even though Jim did not want to “raise flowers with tears”, he obeyed the command; while Huckleberry did not listen to Miss Watson, who was trying to help him. Jim was not used to lies from the “king” or “duke” because he was honest, and Huckleberry always lied when he was asked for his identity and Jim’s. Jim was also willing to sacrifice for Huckleberry to save him because he though Huckleberry was “de bes’ fren’”, but Huckleberry was selfish and was not willing to help Jim at all when he himself was saved by the Grangerfords. Even though Jim and all other niggers of the period did not think of themselves as superior than their masters at all, Twain persuaded the readers to believe that these African slaves were all obedient, honest, and willing to sacrifice for the others – which was not found in the whites in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn.