Negroes up North have no respect for people. They think they can get away with anything” (132). After being warned by her mom to pretend she did not know about Emmett, Ann is forced to suppress her feelings of anger towards the white people who committed this act. However, she also starts to feel resentment grow for the colored people who pretended to not care about his death. This anger at the Caucasian race for the inequality of the races eventually spurred Ann to join the NAACP, a group put together to fight racism and fight for equal rights.
To Kill a Mockingbird shows mostly every person in the town is affected by prejudice. 1930s Maycomb is used by Harper Lee the author of the novel, to show that even those who aren’t targets of partial views are likely to have their reason changed by the suitability of being unfair to certain groups in the community and suffer from not being able to openly be themselves in an environment where blacks not a lot of power or hardly any rights, women are restricted to only a small amount of suitable roles, and anyone who does not behave not like the normality of that day and age are known to be excluded and are not accepted in the town. The black society is affected the most prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird with the harsh and unreasonable effects of targeting and dividing others according to the difference of the colour of their skin, which was shown throughout the trial and death of Tom Robinson. Although Atticus Finch capably proves that with injured and unusable arm, Tom Robinson would have been unable of raping Mayella Ewell, Tom is however found
This is based on lack of females in her life. Many elders in town are now upset because it is not proper for young ladies to participate in boy activities. The second section is where we learn about Scout, her thoughts, and her judgments on the actions that occur in the novel. Tom’s trial also occurs in this part of the novel and is considered the climax of the story. The trial suggesting Tom’s raping of a young woman is a taboo in southern society.
There was racism that was directed towards the whites when Jem and Scout were brought to First Purchase and were not welcomed by Lula. Negroes didn’t want to be near whites and vise versa. This affected the children of Maycomb County, going back to when Jem cries because he was aware that the jury knew Robinson was innocent and wasn’t given justice. Therefore, there was a time where racial prejudice was to blacks and as well as whites. Social prejudice was also a big topic in To Kill A Mockingbird.
How does Harper Lee use minor characters in To Kill A Mockingbird to explore some of the main concerns of the novel? 1) Harper Lee used Dolphous Raymond to explain how racism was at the time. Raymond could not be himself because people would judge him because he had a negro wife and children. 2) Harper Lee used Aunt Alexandra and Mrs. Dubose to explain how people were biased. Scout could not do anything without Aunt Alexandra and Mrs. Dubose criticizing what Scout was wearing, doing, and behaving.
To Kill a Mockingbird: A Society full of Prejudices The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in Maycomb is a town in the south of the United States, in Alabama. The population is divided by race and black people are considered a lower class, so they have no rights and are treated like scum. The story is told from the perspective of a little girl named Scout whose father, Atticus is a lawyer willing to defend a black man, for this reason the novel focuses on the case of Tom Robinson, because everyone knows that a black man does not have the chance to win in the court, but Atticus is putting himself and his family in a difficult situation. Scout is very young to know what is going on around her, but with her innocence she can show how
The fact that she has been influenced means that other individuals believe not possible for a black person to share the same manners and values as them (black people’s manners and values were not as worthy as white people’s in Maycomb at the time). Today, racism still very much exists, but less people believe that colored men are not respectable. Lynch mobs and segregation rarely occur anymore, and To Kill a Mockingbird makes the readers want to bring cultural inequality to an end, because it really illustrates that somebody’s culture or somebody’s skin color does not have anything to do with how respectable they are as a
The rules deny blacks equality. When Mayella kissed Tom, she mixes with a black, and at that time in the class system it was considerid wrong. It was considered a sin because it was against the unspoken rules. She had known the rules and still kissed him, but she got caught so she had to cover it up. The community is acting upon something that is not in the law but that has a more powerful influence than the law.
But Atticus is one of the few people who can. In his words: “You never understand a person until you… climb into their skin and walk around in it” (Lee, 30). He knows that coloured people dislike being called niggers, therefore he calls them Negroes. Also, during Tom Robinson’s trial, Atticus stood along side him throughout his trial, even though he already knew he could not win this case. Atticus came up with several points to try to change the jury’s mind about Tom’s innocence, but he could not.
The story of To Kill a Mockingbird on the other hand, tells about the lives of two children growing up in a town engulfed with racism, where only a few can see the true evil of racism. The people of the town are so blind to the harshness of the discrimination they are putting out towards black people that even the symbol of a mad dog cannot remove their blindfold. The dogs in both stories are corrupted with the curses of the towns they reside in. Because of Antigone’s Uncle, Creon the King of Thebes, the city’s curse has made the one reliable source—the god’s—disappear almost all together. The god’s “are deaf when [they] pray to them…the sky is deaf”(Ant.