Examples Of Bigotry In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee's “To Kill A Mockingbird” there is a recurring theme of bigotry. During the 1930s racial intolerance was at its peak. This is expressed when Tom Robinson is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Since Tom Robinson was black it would be easier for Bob Ewell to win in court. The people in Maycomb were oblivious to what was right in court. Discrimination in the South has a complex history from post-Civil War time (late 1800’s) up to the civil rights movement (1960’s). Lee sets her novel in the South of the 1930’s, conditions for the African Americans did not improve till the early 1960s. The Civil right movement started coming together in 1950s. The Civil Rights movement was inchoate and starting to become a voice for America's courtroom and lawrooms to be held buy.

They are inconsiderate of others feelings. Dolphins Raymond state's, “Cry about the simple hell people gives other people without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too. (Lee 201)” The people in Maycomb discriminate without thinking about the African Americans, too. Maycomb is involved in blind discrimination, they don't stop to look at what they are doing, and how it is affecting other people. They just take the easier way out, people were afraid of being judged by their own neighbors and pushed away from their town. Martin Luther King Jr stood up for what is right and didn't care what people thought and that is how Atticus was. “ I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” - Martin luther king