The whole trial is also pretty racist. Everyone on the jury knows that they have to say Tom is guilty because that is how it had to be during that time. They did not want to get caught saying that there was even a slight chance he was innocent. “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty… guilty…guilty…’” (282).
The mockingbirds in the story, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley get undeserving treatment during the novel until it is known to the people of Maycomb that they are good and pure. In the case of Tom Robinson it was too late as they killed him before they could learn what a good person he actually was. He got charged for a crime he did not commit, and Boo Radley got rumors spread about him that were anything but true. “It is wrong to kill the mockingbird just because you don’t like its
That's why all suicides are morally questionable, because next to your family, and social-circle, the paramedics, the police, the coroner, they all lose something, in having to clean you up. To what extent is a police officer morally obligated to assess whether a person he or she shoots actually wants to be killed? I believe there isn’t an extent because if a person tries to point a weapon at you there intention is to kill not just to injury unless they want to commit suicide in this
People will always do what they want to do trying not to get caught. In the book the defense attorneys were not fair with Jefferson’s trial and they were not nice either by considering him a hog. In trials in the society today people get chances and say on what they did or didn’t do to prove how they’re not guilty. In the novel an innocent black man was not treated with respect. Jefferson was treated as a poor lowlife creature.
During his trial, the prosecuting lawyer questions Tom exceptionally harshly plus he refers to Tom as a boy. Calling him a boy is a derogatory term as he is not a boy at all but Mr Gilmer (the prosecuting lawyer) uses this term to put Tom down and make him know that he views Tom as less than him in every way, almost like a child to an adult. Both of the children are appalled by Mr Gilmer’s actions and the fact that they feel this way shows that they have not been brought up in a racist home, it also shows their compassion and innocence because they would otherwise not be appalled and this would seem to be perfectly alright to them, as is the case for the large majority of the town’s people of Maycomb. Both Jem and Scout grow in compassion throughout the novel. An example where we can see Atticus showing compassion despite the fact that he does not entirely agree with Bob Ewell’s actions is when he says “… so if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that’s something I’ll gladly take.
” 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
Scout also does not understand the consequences of many things. This includes about fighting and the situation with Boo Radley, the Finch’s exclusive neighbour. Having such a young narrator gives To Kill a Mockingbird a different point of view to many other stories. It shows innocence and naivety, but also to not judge everything straight away. It helps ease the tension, especially during such a controversial novel.
“No man has ever been born a negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.” People are born without any malicious thoughts towards others but instead the thoughts and opinions of others are later incorporated into that person’s new opinions, thoughts, and prejudices. This critical lens is valid because as shown in the general populace of youth, humans are generally accepting of all people until later on in their lives. This idea of learned hatred is evident or supported in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and in the drama Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In To Kill a Mockingbird the characters express many types of prejudice.
All Boo did was mind his own business and got punished and judged for it. Boos innocence was hidden behind his way of protecting himself from turning into a cruel citizen of Maycomb like the rest. Boo was judged unfairly his whole life but in the end the only thing he did was save two young lives, this making him a representation of the mockingbird. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are several people symbolized by the mockingbird. The mockingbird symbol is used to represent innocence and people getting judged unfairly which teaches those who read the novel, empathy and not to judge others by things heard by a second-hand
In Proctors case it is opposite, he objects to the girls false deeds and no one believes him because the majority of people do not. Even Hale says it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride, Proctor took a risk to see if he could get some people to believe him but the majority of the crowd did not, so it could not be true according to them. John Proctor, our main character, is in desperate need of forgiveness at the start of the play, but his wife seems torn about whether to grant it, Proctor finally decides to come clean and clearly realizes that Abigail is a whore and a