1930's Character Analysis

The 1930’s in Maycomb county was a blur for Scout but in that time she had experienced a lot of racism, power and corruption, and growing up. That’s just how it was in Maycomb back in those times. In the profound book To Kill A Mockingbird Scout, a little girl living in Maycomb county in the 1930’s goes through a series of a whole lot in her childhood, along with her childhood companions, Jem and Dill. Through Scout’s childhood she starts picking up “traits” from the townsfolk and starts to witness the evils of racism, power and corruption, and starts to grow up to see both pain and pleasure. Society in this time pulls Scout toward the real themes of the 1930’s, the society she really grew up in.

To Scout it’s normal to say “nigger” or referring to the black community as “just negroes”, because everyone else says

Many people use these terms around regularly and to even call someone (a white person) a “nigger-lover” is offensive and used as a put down and Scout gets picked on a lot due to the fact Atticus is defending a black man, Tom Robinson. “Cecil Jacobs...He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers.” (Harper Lee 99). This is only one of many examples of Scout getting made fun of, only because her dad is defending one black man in court Atticus has one of two choices, being a “hero” to the town and drop the case then have the cause of a man's death be his fault or have some dignity and fight for this clearly innocent black man. Many people in Maycomb (most of the white population) don’t even want Tom to have a chance at the case because of his skin color. Tom was moved to the Maycomb jail for one night, and had unwelcomed guests. “He in there, Mr.Finch?” a man said. “He is…” “You know what we want...move aside from the door, Mr.Finch” (Harper Lee 202). This group of men want Tom dead and want him to have no participation at all