Domestic Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird Racism, domestic violence, and poverty were a large part of 1935. Most people in the South were farmers who had large amounts of money, most of the farmers were also Racist and believed that Domestic violence was the only was the only way to purge these impurities. These are all subjects that occur in To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, occur because Tom Robinson had supposedly raped Mayella Ewell, a poor girl who is apart of the Ewell family which is not respected for anything due to the large amounts of money her widowed father uses on whisky instead of food for their seven kids. Tom Robinson had been tried for rape in a court because of his skin color although the facts presented by Atticus in the court had nearly

One way that To Kill a Mockingbird had racism in it, is the white men gambling in the First purchase Black church house with no care of how they left the place or how dirt they made the graveyard. “Negroes worshiped in it on Sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays” (Lee 157). This was racist because they did not let blacks go to their church but they go into the black church and make a mess out of it, and do not care it was a church to their god. Not only were the whites racist but the blacks were too, most of all Lula was racist as she tried to expel Jem and Scout from the first Purchase because they were white. “Lula stopped, but she said, “You ain’t got no business bringin‘ white chillun here —they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?”’ (Lee 158). This is racist because Lula is segregating the whites from the blacks and telling them to go back to their church just like the whites do to the black when any blacks try to go to white church. Another theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is poverty which is represented by the Ewells, Cunninghams and most people in