Racial stereotypes can be found in numerous spots throughout the whole book. Many times the reader will find people calling Atticus a “nigger lover” (144). Atticus tries to explain to Scout that it really does not mean anything and that people just throw it around when they think they are better than someone. (144). The whole trial is also pretty racist.
Miss Gates talks about how Hitler is evil for killing all the Jews, and how being prejudiced against someone for their religion is wrong, yet she is racist against black people. So, she is a hypocrite for saying it is wrong to judge someone by their religion, but it’s ok to judge black people for their colour. Her ideas are widely the same as the people of Maycomb making it a racist and hypocritical community. 33. Bob Ewell attacked and followed Jem and Scout home, he jumped out in front of them but Jem pushed him which then made him fall on his own knife, which then killed him.
Ellie again questions herself and her actions when she blows up a lawnmower to save her friends. She battles with her decision and believes she is a murderer. Although the choices she makes may deliver pain and trauma to others, her human spirit shines through the chaos to help her succeed. Through the characters in ‘Tomorrow When the War Began’, Marsden shows the human spirit’s ability to grow and triumph. Ellie’s decisive ability and her morals are thrown into chaos when she arrives at the family house and finds her dogs dead.
His fingers become covered with a yellow stain and people think that he is hygienically unclean. He forces Toby to do the paper round but exploits him and does not give him his money which angers Toby (221); he has to pawn his rifles. He is referred to as a “sissy” because he initially he does not want to fight Arthur. He abuses him because he discards the almost-empty mustard bottle (171) and when Dwight strikes him despite his finger injury, Rosemary finally knows she must remove Toby from the household.
Soon after German troops on both sides of their trenches came out into no man’s land and started swapping chocolate and whisky. We even saw some people having a game of football. The generals were very angry about this when they heard as they thought we would find it harder to kill the Germans after this. They never agreed with it so they kept moving the men that took in the truce, but as soon as we know it was over and we attacking each other once
Then her father takes the money she needs to use to get a real abortion in order to buy himself a new set of teeth. The town doctor explains that Cash’s leg was hopelessly destroyed by the cement cast, which his father did by the way... Vardaman realizes he’s poor because he can’t have toys like the other kids. Darl is shipped off to an insane asylum when he is suspected of the burning of the Gillespie farm. Anse borrows shovels to bury Addie’s body and flirts
Prejudice is a preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. Sometimes prejudice is a destructive force in society. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice is shown in many ways. Prejudice was shown when Atticus was defending the jail, a group of men came to kill Tom and also when Scout was getting teased at school by other kids because her dad was taking Tom’s case. Furthermore, when Tom Robinson was accused of being guilty even though he was not, and died because of it.
After Candy takes them to the barracks and meet other ranchers but when they are left alone they meet Curley’s wife immediately and she starts to flirt with the both of them. Both of these scenes are different during the beginning of the book and movie. In the movie Of Mice and Men the beginning of the movie is significantly different then the beginning of the book. In the beginning of the book George and Lennie are walking down a path toward a ranch to work at. In the beginning of the movie George and Lennie are running away from a big group of guys that are chasing them.
The Ku Klux Klan is born. Southern women secretly make hundreds of thousands of uniforms bearing a woven St. Andrews Cross, and the “Night Riders” start a new war against Lynch’s militia. Ben’s involvement in the Klan crushes Elsie, but she does not sell him out. Flora consoles Elsie and then skips off into the woods to fetch water from a spring. There, Gus, a newly promoted black officer, approaches Flora and proffers marriage.
Muriel wanted a necklace with a picture of her, and the other side Courage. Meanwhile the swamp monster was upset and decided to search for his girlfriend, and also passed by the key ring shop. He broke the shop doors violently and growled at the shopkeeper, who was frightened and hid behind the counter. He started to demand for if his girlfriend visited the shop. He got really scared and the swamp monster got extremely angry and broke down the whole shop.