‘Maycomb was an old town’ because everybody knew what was happening at the time, therefore gossip about Thomas Robinson would spread as fast as light. So, Lee’s aim was to change society which was discriminating people who were far away from being respectful beings and showing unequal society. Francis is Scout’s cousin who is rude and disrespectful by saying that Atticus is a ‘Nigger-lover’ which makes Scout to lose her patience-she ‘split her knuckle to the bone on his front teeth’. This action leads Scout to be seen as violent in front of Uncle Jack’s eyes. However, Uncle didn’t know the truth behind this brutal and aggressive accident where Scout, not Francis gets in trouble.
When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. “Your fathers no better than the ******* and trash he works for!” (Lee 117) 1. (analysis)This quote said by Mrs. Dubose towards Jem and Scout shows how racists she is. Mrs. Dubose and most of the towns people dislike the Finches because Atticus is a white man defending a black man. Jem and Scout stats to become aware that all this is caused by segregation.
I’ll tell you! Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” When the kids had told Atticus, Atticus didn’t take it to heart because he knew Mrs Dubose was old. But the kids where really upset when they she had told them that and they thought she was a mean, cranky old lady. Social prejudice was expressed well in this book. It shows how a person’s wealth and background can affect their lives.
A prejudiced society is usually ignorant of its flaws, many prejudiced people do not realise the extent of their hypocrisy. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Scout and Jem encounter prejudice in their little southern town of Maycomb, in which many social divisions exist. Maycomb County harbours many kinds of prejudices, and this lack of acceptance negatively affects many characters, which are stereotyped based on their race, economic status and level of education. Firstly, the 1930’s have large amounts of racial tension between strangers, neighbour, and even fellow family members. The white community feels that the black people are beneath them in the world.
His father despised white people and barely ever trusted any of them, which was the stem of his paranoia. Baldwin continues his life and begins to understand where his father’s anger and hatred towards whites came from. A specific line in the essay that basically sums up the Baldwin’s reason for this story would be “I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro mean, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes the color of one’s skin caused in other people.” What Baldwin means in this statement is that he finally understood the hatred his father had in him towards the whole white against black situation. It gives the impression that he never really knew what the big deal was and that he realized the hardship his father went through which led him to a gloomy and unhappy life. This line is very significant because James Baldwin himself is a black male.
The Penn State fiasco defiantly brings up some important moral questions. Is acting only in the manner someone is legally obligated to enough? Was Joe Paterno, morally obliged to inform the incident to the police, when he must have realized that the University has decided not take action? The only “action” University took against Mr. Sandusky was to tell him, not to bring boys to the campus. But he still had access to the facilities.
These groups are being stopped just because they seem like the “bad” people. White police officers stop minorities just to see if they can find anything illegal on them so they can face humiliation or jail time. Profiling anybody because they are of a certain race is unconstitutional. An Army General and his son were being humiliated for two hours because they were African American. They both were handcuffed against their car for no valid reason.
They were dehumanized if they stepped out of line “My husband cousin... they took her tongue out for talking to the clan... You think they gone take our tongues? For talking to you?” (Stockett, 301)- Winnie (A black maid). Black people were denied the right to speak their mind or else they would be tortured or killed. They had to write the novel in secrecy in fear that they would get caught and killed. All the rights of a human being were denied to the black society in which freedom of speech and freedom in society were not
In other words, he is very courageous as he ‘know(s) you are (he is) licked before you (he) begin (s) but you (he) begin(s) anyway’. Moreover, Atticus is courageous as he is willing to uphold his principles by defending Tom, which he considers a ‘matter of conscience’. He does this despite knowing that society greatly disapproves of his actions, and many consider it reprehensible that he is defending a Negro. It can be seen just how much his actions go against Maycomb’s social code, when he is verbally abused by Mrs Dubose, and even children like Francis and Cecil Jacobs for
The racist views of the town are against Atticus defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, and Atticus is often discriminated against for not agreeing with them. His children, Scout and Jem, also feel the hatred of others against them because of what their father's beliefs are. "But Mrs. Dubose held us: "'Not only a Finch waiting tables, but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers' ... 'Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for.'" Although Atticus is criticized for what he decides is right, he bravely ignores the disapprobation. Mrs. Dubose is courageous because she recognizes she has a flaw and that she has to help fix it to make it go away.