"She was white, and she tempted a N****. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man" Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that examines racism and discrimination in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. We get to walk through the struggles of scout finch as she winds her way around her stubborn town where many are stuck in the past. Through the story of many characters in the book, readers are able to gain insight into the history of racism in Maycomb and its effect on those living in the community In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama people are very tightly knit together and are expected to act and look or talk in a very certain way. Many characters are shunned from the town because they don't fit into what the people of Maycomb find normal. People like Dolphus Raymod and his family whose kids are mixed with parents from both the black and white communities in town are shamed just for doing something different or being something different than what the town expects or wants. They say things like 'They don't belong …show more content…
Characters like Calpurnia, Boo Radley, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson support the story of prejudice in Maycomb Alabama at that time. For example Calpurnia, a young woman who works for Atticus Finch takes the kids (scout finch and jem finch) to her church which is made up of the colored community in maycomb. By taking the kids to this church they are exposed to discrimination for the first time, not towards colored people like how the kids usually have seen but towards them because they are white kids going to a colored church. This helps to illustrate how racism and discrimination is so normalized in the town that Scout and Jem don't even know it's a thing until it is directed toward them or other white people. Many other minor characters provide the same lessons in the story in different ways, shapes and