Dylan Fiolek Prejudice in the South Racial prejudice was beyond horrible in the 1960s. A time to kill was a movie about a white lawyer who defends a black man for shooting to white woman. The black man raped and beat his daughter. To kill a Mockingbird was a book about a white lawyer who defends a black man. They accuse him of raping and beating a young white woman.
The obsession of the color pink, the non-athletic abilities, and the simple things like how women walk or hold their books. In Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee also approaches the stereotypical expectations of females. "I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. "(Lee 81). Aunt Alexandra was horrified with the fact that Scout did not live up to the standards society had of women.
To Kill a Mockingbird Themes Have you ever seen discrimination against a darker-skinned person from a lighter-skinned person? To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells a story about a little girl, Scout, and her father, Atticus, who is a white man. He has to defend a black, Tom Robinson, who has been accused of raping a young white girl, Mayella Ewell. This book had many themes that all taught a valuable lesson, such as: individuals have a right to protect the innocent, people often fear what they don’t understand, and the most important part of a child’s education may take place in the home and community rather than in the school. The first theme is individuals have a responsibility to protect the innocent.
In the novel, Atticus Finch whom is the town lawyer, is defending an African American known as Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson was accused of allegedly raping Mr. Ewell's daughter. Even though he was innocent, his verdict was guilty, her was later murdered. The case of Tom Robinson brings uproar
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is set in a southern American town called Maycomb in the 1930s, during the depression. The book is based on a girl named Scout and her brother Jem who grow up in not only a time of racism, but an extremely racist town as well. The towns characters include Dill Harris, Calpurnia, Arthur “Boo” Radely, Miss Maudie
Elizabethian time was the Era of superstition to say the least. In the most the common setting, superstition played a factor in civilian’s everyday lives. Elizabethians believed that physically saying “god bless you” following a sneeze would prevent the devil from entering your body when opening your mouth. Other superstitions such as having your shoes on a table, having hold of a peacock feather, passing by a black cat, and spilling table salt or pepper were also considered to be bad luck. Women in the kitchen believed it was unlucky to stir the pot counterclockwise while cooking.
It is the 1930’s in Maycomb ,Alabama, a female by the name of Mayella Evell sets the town into trouble as She says that she has been raped by a local color man by the name of Tom Robinson, this will lead to a powerful blaze in the town.In the story, it leads to the case of race,gender and class to determine the power of Mayella.Does she have power or does she not have power is the question and she does or does,not what are the reasons that contribute to this and how does it connected to her case of having power or not. In the documents ,it talks about Mayella Evell a White Female that lives her dad , Mr.Evell and her younger siblings in what use to be an old African American shack and seat right behind a dump, her and her siblings are not educated, Mayella has power because of how she was born into a white family because in the time period they had more power than any other races, in these case Whites are the jury of the
‘Jean Louise, stop |to take her bags without introduction. | | |scratching your head,’ was the second thing she said. | | |133 |She owned a bright green square Buick and a black |Likes everything to be orderly and tidy, relatively well-off.| | |chauffeur, both kept in an unhealthy state to tidiness. | | |133 |‘We decided that it would be best for you to have some |Sees herself as feminine influence, can change Scout for the | | |feminine influence’ |better | | |‘I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I | | | |could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat |Not a friendly or close relationship with Scout.
Tom Robinson, a Negro, is charged for the rape of Mayella Ewell, a white female of the age of 19. Even though all the evidence suggests and even proves Robinson is innocent, he is charged guilty. Scout, watching from the colored man’s balcony, sees this and asks her father about it later. He says that in this case, Tom Robinson was the mockingbird and racism is the ‘air rifle’ that was shooting him. Morally incorrect, that is what it is called.
Victimization is a consistent theme that is first demonstrated through the character Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson faced a great amount of abuse by the citizens of Maycomb. During his rape trial, Tom Robinson was discriminated against while he took the stand. “ ‘Strong enough to choke the breath out of a woman and sling her to the floor?’ ” (Lee, 196). Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, used Tom’s race and physical strength to imply that Tom was just another stereotypical black man who targeted a fair skinned female.