By living with the DeRosier’s April was taught to hate her people, her family, but she also learned to stay strong. Living with the DeRosier’s made April fully realize that people view Métis as “second class citizens”. Living with them was what sparked her desire to be white. She even plotted that “When [she got] free of [that] place, when [she got] free from being a foster child, then [she]would live just like a real white person"(34). The DeRosier’s were also the ones who shattered her dreams of a perfect family by saying “We take you in because your parents don’t want you"(35).
Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,”(245) which shows that her teacher is against persecution. Later on, Scout over hears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was being convicted because colored people were getting too “high” and “mighty.” That subject has Scout’s head roaming around thinking how hypocritical her teacher was being. Scout’s view against her father were also changing. Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them.
Never-ending human misery demoralizes her, and she no longer sees a reason to fight against it. Asagai reprimands her for her lack of idealism and her attachment to the money from her father’s death. He tells Beneatha about his dream to return to Africa and help bring positive
Looking back into our country’s history I’ve come to realized school is something that was not always so easily accessible by everyone. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X are two perfect examples of people that were either not given the opportunity to learn or denied the opportunity to learn. Frederick Douglass was a man who was born a slave and not given the opportunity to go to school and learn to read and write. Douglass’ mistress had taught him to read and write but was prohibited from teaching him further more by her husband shortly after Frederick’s success in both reading and writing (143). When the mistress noticed her husband’s disapproval of her actions she started to act more violently and like a stereotypical slave owner.
It’s incredibly sad how some mothers could care less for their children and just abandon them so that they can just run off living the life they should have lived before having a family. Through out the book A Place to Stand, by Jimmy Santiago Baca he explains how his mother eventually started changing and becoming someone she wasn’t while dating a guy named Richard. Eventually Richard begins to tell the kids they have to change their ways in which they eat and speak but also their mother tried changing Jimmy, Mieyo, and Martina to look and act like white children. Their mother decides that it would be best to abandon her children and run off with Richard and start new life. Jimmy and his brother and sister were left with broken hearts and
” It was ridiculous to think that a white girl had any desire for a black man. He also said he felt sorry for her and that’s why he decided to help her. This made it seem like Tom thought he was better off than Mayella, which could be totally true, but none of the whites of Maycomb want to hear it. Harper Lee, having grown up in the south, understood the rifts in society and she displayed them in her book. She also showed how trivial they are by looking at them from a child’s point of view and by making Tom Robinson break all of them to save his own
He hurts his mom after telling her he does not love her and “felt sorry for his mother and she made him lie. He would go to Kansas City and get a job and she would feel all right about it” (Hemingway 77). Krebs means it when he says he does not and cannot love anybody which hurts his mother deeply. Because he has lost or weakened his values he hides how he truly feels and lies and takes it back. He decides that he will run away to Kansas only to escape the problems he cannot confront in his family.
“Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did. What did she do? She tempted a Negro.”(206) During the time of the trial people truly were racist and prejudiced. They wanted a separation between blacks and whites, and could not tolerate the mere thought of them being together intimately. “That Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin.
The Board of Education changed all of this and not everyone liked it. The National Guard even had to come in because the whites would not allow it. That, in my opinion, is not right. It is horrible to treat someone that way just because of his or her skin. So, did this ruling put an end to segregation in the U.S.?
This led to an extreme lack of racial pride for him. He strived to be white just like his classmates and when coupled with his troubled past, you can see why he ended up the way he did. After his father was killed, his mother went crazy and had to be institutionalized, leaving a young Malcolm Little to be put into foster care. Malcolm did not easily accept the social order he was living in due to experiences he had as a child. For example, his father was murdered when he was very young and his grandmother was raped.