But since she is white it is taboo for them to desire her in any way. Some white men felt the need to “protect” their white women but many also used this as an excuse to harass black men. Such as the “Scottsboro Nine”, who were arrested and convicted to hang, in the 1930s, on charges of rape based of the word alone of two white women. Luckily the news of this injustice spread and the men were eventually freed. But many southern black men were not so lucky.
The denial of syphilis treatment to these men and the USPHS seeking to prevent treatment to the ones’ seeking treatment was morally wrong. All these African Americans were placed to participate in an experiment, without having the knowledge or chance to know what the experiment was about or give their consent to be in the experiment. This experiment is responsible for the death possibly 101 men, deaths that could have been prevented if they were given the chance to take penicillin when it became the preferred medical treatment for syphilis. In 1927, Alabama passed a law that required the treatment and the reporting of several venereal diseases, syphilis being included in those several venereal diseases. USPHS ignored this state law and violating a state requirement, disregarding the impact of untreated syphilis on the wives of the subjects.
Atticus used logos to attempt at logically convincing this racist jury that there was no way Mr. Robinson could have committed the rape. The first fact thrown at the jury was, “The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence”. Which was true, they did not have a doctor confirm that Miss Mayela was actually raped; they instead went by the word of the two most unreliable people in Maycomb County. The fact that Mr. Bob Ewell would not have a doctor confirm that his daughter had been raped had to have been a sign that his story was not credible. The second fact was, “Mayela Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left”.
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. After he killed the mad dog in one shot, Scout was proud of her father and got more influenced in him. Scout is forced to understand that Tom Robinson was being treated differently because he had colored skin. Because of that, Scout realized that people can be prejudice because her father took a case of an African American man who was innocent. It shows that Scout can actually think seriously about things when she says, “Who in this town did anything to help Tom Robinson, just who?”(215).
It began when Bob Ewell accused him of raping his daughter and Tom denied it. Tom, being black, was expected to just plead guilty and not to talk in court at all. If Atticus had not protected him, he would have been lynched way before his trail. Tom also spoke about Mayella against society norms, “So I done like she told me, and I was reachin' when the next thing I know she . .
All this because of one decision she made to berry her brother caused her life to fall apart and everyone she loved to disappear. This was in some ways similar to the consequences that Creon had to face with the decision. He was left alone with no one because he killed his family; he killed his own son because its what he thought was right for the town. He didn’t know that his decision was going to force him to live alone. All of this was because they were too stubborn and selfish to change their mind or listen to other peoples view.
Many slaves were beaten with whips almost every day for no reason at all. Some slaves were even beaten to death by their masters. Frederick Douglass even recalls when one slave disobeyed his master, and he got shot and killed right on the spot. (Douglass 2000-2010) Also, by law these killings were not seen as a crime in the south because they felt that if a slave’s master killed them, they had a good reason for doing so. Therefore, a slave’s life seemed worthless in the world, and this stopped many slaves from trying to escape because they knew that if they were caught they would most likely be killed.
In the beginning of the movie he molests a black women after pulling her and her husband over. After pulling this disgusting stunt off his partner decided that he was a racist and did not want to continue to work with him. Throughout the movie you can see that he slowly changes. When his father gets sick he does everything he can so his father is not in pain anymore, even if it does mean to yell at a black women. It was not the black nurses fault that thy needed to wait for the doctor.
These Indian women were hesitant to expose Frank because the white people of Bentrock were ignorant of the opinion’s of an indian, this is supported when David says ‘I knew what he was thinking; she’s an Indian – why would she tell the truth?’. It was not until Marie Little Soldier refused to be examined by him and spoke up by saying something to Gail Hayden that the true nature of Frank was revealed. It was this courage that Marie displayed that allowed justice to be served. Although she lost her life because of it, she was a huge part of the reason he was stopped from molesting any more of his patients. From the beginning Wesley Hayden has the odds stacked against him, he is introduced as a weak and oblivious character, who lived under the shadow of his brother Frank and felt the pressure put on him by his overpowering father.
Ce’Desia Burgess February 7, 2011 4/A To kill a mocking bird Throughout the novel, To kill a mocking bird, prejudice was almost like a “tradition” to those of Maycomb. Since prejudice was like a tradition, most of the citizens followed it with no questions asked. Some of the townsmen of Maycomb knew that following this “tradition” wasn’t right, but yet they never thought to step up to take action against it. Some one didn’t have the courage to take a stand for going against this “so called tradition” until the alleged rape came along after an innocent African American man by the name of Tom Robinson. This alleged rape was the “event” that brought the prejudice that was happening in the novel to the attention of the audience