To Kill a Mockingbird essay In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are two plots being focused on in the story. First off, Tom Robinson, the humble African American man who is accused of raping southern teenager, Mayella Ewell. In the early 1930s, especially Maycomb County, Mississippi, everyone hated African Americans, and were extremely racist. So, when Atticus Finch, father of Jean Louise Finch, A.K.A "scout" is sentenced to represent Tom in court, things get crazy in Maycomb. Secondly, Arthur "Boo" Radley, the mystery of the town, no one really knows anything about him, just that he's been locked inside the house since he was young.
He held one of his wives at gunpoint, and beat his wives often, one instance even being during the week of peace. Him being abusive caused him and his wives not to be as close, as they feared him. When Ikemafuna was stabbed in the back by a machete, he yelled out to Okonkwo to save him but in fear of looking weak (which comes from his issues with his father) in front of his friends he finished off Ikemafuna. When Okonkwo killed Ikemafuna, it had a negative effect on his family and in the long run lead to his alienation from them. Not only did Okonkwo’s outbursts lead to his alienation from his family, but also from his community.
The narrator beats him too it, and it is three to one. Even if they have not been in a fight since 6th grade, they go after this guy and do what they see in movies. The narrator utilizes an iron rod he keeps in his car because that is what all bad characters did. As they beat this guy senseless to his death. Even then they are on a violent high and when the dead guy’s girlfriend appears in the story they try to rape her only to flee when other bad characters appear searching for them.
Still others asserted that he made no advances at all, that he whistled habitually to control a speech defect. A Brutal Murder Roy Bryant considered his wife's honor tainted by the incident. Several nights after the episode, Bryant, his half brother J. W. Milam, and possibly other accomplices kidnapped Till from his relatives' home in the middle of the night. The two men beat him severely and, apparently enraged that he had a picture of a white woman in his wallet, shot Till and threw him in a nearby river. Several days later the body was found, and Bryant and Milam were charged with murder.
Clarence is suspected, but Clyde helps him to escape the police only to then paralyze him with a neurotoxin and slowly torture him to death. Finding Clarence's dismembered corpse, Detectives Dunnigan and Garza arrest Clyde as the chief suspect. Clyde offers Nick a full confession in exchange for a mattress in his cell, and Nick reluctantly agrees. Clyde represents himself at his hearing before Judge Laura Burch and is about to be granted bail, but launches into a tirade against the flaws of the legal system and is held in contempt of court. Granted his mattress, Clyde confesses both to murdering Clarence and to switching the drugs used in Rupert's execution.
Dana is terrified because that was the house she was supposed to go to. The white men horribly beat the men for not having papers stating he was free. Dana is disgusted because the beating is so horrifying she has never seen anything like it because she was born in different times. After taking a few hits at the women the men ride off taking the black man with them back towards Rufus’ home. She thinks the man was most likely a slave of Rufus’ farther who had runaway.
Another scene that showed foreshadowing was the part where Candy’s dog is shot because the dog is said to be “useless”. Lennie does something very bad when he kills Curley’s wife on accident because he breaks her neck. This was a much unforeseen event that would affect Lennie and George’s lives. George would later have to kill his closest and best friend. This would cause George to have to live alone now and make his money by himself.
Steve knocks Pete to the ground, Pete, full of rage, swears he shall get revenge on Steve. Captain Hawks daughter, Nollie Hawks, begins to fancy a hotshot gambling man, Gaylord Ravenal. As the story goes on, these two fall in love and have a continued complicated relationship. Soon after they meet, the police come to arrest Steve Baker and Julie because it is bought to light that Julie has ‘ black blood’ in her ( it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry back then). Baker reveals that he also
“Good by mr wigin tell them im strong tell them im a man”(234). Jefferson was at the wrong place at the wrong time when two other black men tried to rob a white man’s liquor store. After the death of these men, instead of calling 911 he steals some money out the register and a bottle of wine off shelf. After Jefferson has been sentenced to death by execution, his godmother, Miss Emma, requests that Grant Wiggins teaches him to be a man before he dies instead of allowing him to die as a hog-which is what Jefferson’s defense attorney refers to him as. Although Grant initially doesn’t want to help Jefferson, he gradually changes throughout this book and accomplishes his goal of transforming him into a man.
At this point other members of the family started to tell Boy Willie that he should listen to his sister there was no point to be fighting over, since the piano had already caused so much grief he should just stop the arguments. That day they felt the spirit of Sutters, Bernice was convinced since her brother Willie had showed up the brought the bad spirits with him. They also thought the spirits were the souls of all the slaves that have died in Mississippi. The so call the yellow dog spirits, ever since they can recall this ghost were killing all the slave masters because of all the barbarian acts that committed against all of the innocent slaves. Boy Willie was not certain that this is not his fault, that he should not be blame because he came to the house this ghost follow him all the way from Mississippi to