Both examples show how prejudiced the city in the South actually was. b. Depression happening at the time as well. j. In a court case, a black man named Tom Robinson was ruled guilty by an extremely racist jury. He was obviously (due to the evidence) innocent, but racist southerners of the jury ruled him guilty anyways.
In Harper Lee's highly successful novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, the author uses the literary device of a metaphor as a major motif in the book. Set in the 1930s Deep South - a time of great prejudice and racism- the novel unfolds as an account of injustice to the most gracious yet unjustly accused citizens of the town of Maycomb. The gentle, but African-American Tom Robinson is unfairly put on trial for the alleged rape of young Mayella Ewell. Boo Radley is victimized and ostracized by the community based on the town fables that the citizens have created about him, forcing him to live in solitude inside his house. Atticus Finch is ridiculed by the townspeople for being a moral human being and sticking to his beliefs in defending an innocent colored man.
Jim Crow Laws MadeEvident in the Jim Crow Laws In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there is terrible discrimination against the Black race; demonstrated in the trial of Tom Robinson. It is clearly evident that the Jim Crow Laws affected many of the Black’s lives. God has put us as human beings on this earth to protect and take care of his creation, which requires us to respect and love one another. He made this evident through the Ten Commandments. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird portrays discrimination against Tom Robinson by the Southern community of Maycomb, Alabama, as a result of the Jim Crow Laws, and in disregard of God’s law.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman, in a court trial. The town of Maycomb turns against him due to this. Atticus, furious about the reaction from his town, explains, “…why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand” (Lee 88). Atticus does not have any racial biases, and he does not agree with the views of the majority of the people of Maycomb. Atticus, describing his beliefs to Jem, “…The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be
The book To Kill a Mockingbird is directly comparable to the movie 12 Angry Men. Both Texts show the theme that true understanding takes time, study, and effort, but To Kill a Mockingbird shows what happens when people do not take the time to obtain a true understanding. In the book Tom Robinson is convicted for allegedly raping a teenage girl even though there was sensible doubt that Tom did not rape the girl and there was no concrete evidence. In the film a teenage male Puerto Rican was accused of murdering his father. All the evidence and the defendant weak testimony made him look so guiltily that 11 out of 12 jurors voted guilty in the preliminary vote.
Racism is one of the worst kinds of prejudice in any society, and it can and does ruin people’s lives. It was racism that led to the death of Tom’s Robinson’s. He was a victim of racism by being falsely accused and then found guilty of raping Mayella Ewall, a white woman. This statement is true, because the events of what happened as told by Mayella and her father, Bob Ewell, were accepted as proof by a prejudiced, all-white jury at the trial. Tom’s lawyer, Atticus Finch, does his very best to represent Tom and provide the facts and evidence of Tom’s innocence.
This is a perfect example of the mindset these cruel slaveholders embodied. If a slaveholder felt as though he was not in control for but a minute’s time, he was willing to do anything in order to re gain his supreme power. I believe this is why so many slaves were murdered at times. In response to this event, Douglass states, “One of the bloodiest and most foul murders goes un-whipped of justice and uncensored by the community in which he lived” (Douglass 39). Not only were the murdered unpunished, but also the communities were “uncensored”.
It shows the true southern stereotype of a racist lifestyle. While reading the work of Harper Lee, the following truths are revealed more completely: (1) emancipation brought an end to slavery, but it didn’t bring an end to racism; (2) African Americans in the “Jim Crow” south had to endure incredible punishment from the whites in their community. While reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, it becomes apparent that the southern stereotype is true. Nearly all whites during the Jim Crow era looked upon African Americans in an extremely negative light. They saw them as outcasts and segregated them from life’s activities as much as possible.
When Jem asks what all the commotion was about Miss Maudie even says, “Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his collard patch” (54) when she had no idea what was really going on. It the racism that she hosted that made her blame a colored person of stirring up trouble right off the bat without proof of any kind. Another example of racism is when Jem and Scouts cousin Francis teases Scout. Francis tells Scout “I guess
Of course this guy went to jail along with his friends for committing that crime. This film actually portrayed the racial hatred and was more specific on why white Americans have that stupid mentality about