To Kill a Mockingbird Essay On the first day of middle school I walked into my classroom hoping I would get to sit by one of my friends in the class. I was disappointed to see that a girl I did not know sat next to me. At first we did not really talk to each other, but eventually we got to know each other and now she is one of my closest friends. In To Kill a Mockingbird the topic of everyone not being who people think they are comes up multiple times. This life lesson is very important in the fact that you should not jump to conclusions when you first meet someone. In the novel Dolphus Raymond is different. He is a white person who hangs out with all the colored people and is even married and has children with a colored women. Everyone in the community just assumes that he does this because he is drunk all the time. It seems to make sense, I mean he drinks something out of a paper bag, walks around like a drunk, and he hangs out with the colored community. Therefore, Scout and Jem are confused when they find out that Mr. Raymond …show more content…
‘Scout it’s nothing but Coca-Cola’
Mr. Raymond sat up against the tree-trunk. He had been lying on the grass. ‘You little folks won’t tell on me now, will you? It’d ruin my whole reputation if you did.’
‘You mean all you drink in that sack’s Coca-Cola? Just plain Coca-Cola?’”(267).
This passage is when Scout realizes that Mr. Raymond is not a bad, drunk person. He just knows people will not understand who he actually is. So he makes it easy for them by giving a reason to this “absurd” behavior.
“‘I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason’”(268).
Mr. Raymond is saying that people will think he is crazy for being the person that he is, so he gives them what they want to hear. A reason that he hangs out with them. To them the only reason he lives with African Americans is because he is drunk and does not know what he is doing. They just can not relate to