Examples Of Racial Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Step into the world of Maycomb, Alabama, and experience the themes of racial injustice, courage, and social inequality in Harper Lee's famous novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." This novel explores themes of race through the eyes of a young girl named Scout living in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Scout lives with her father, and her older brother, Jem. Atticus is a lawyer defending a black man during a time of heavy racism and segregation. At the beginning of the novel Scout is a childish and curious girl who is unaware of the racism that took place in her town Maycomb, Alabama. But as the novel continues she begins to notice how unfair it was of her, or for anyone to judge someone for what they looked like on the outside.
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The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you. A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions were asked. The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born.” Boo Radley is an individual who has been suffering from a mental illness and due to this mental illness, he always stays in his home and is considered an outcast in his town. This detail shows how Scout says that “A Negro would not pass by the house” which shows that the house must look strange or scary. She says that the school grounds are connected to the Radley’s house but no kids go near it which shows that she is saying the house must be

Scout sees Boo Radley differently now since she has seen him and she sees with her own eyes that he is no monster but a hero and an average person. A detail to support this is in, Chapter 31, pg 283, “I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle. There were Miss Maudie’s, Miss Stephanie’s—there was our house, I could see the porch swing—Miss Rachel’s house was beyond us, plainly visible. I could even see Mrs. Dubose’s. I looked behind me. To the left of the brown door was a long shuttered window. I walked to it, stood in front of it, and turned around. In daylight, I thought, you could see to the postoffice corner.” This quote shows how Scout looks at the neighborhood from Boo Radley’s perspective for the first time and it shows how it’s the same as how an average person would see it which meant Boo Radley was just as human and equal to everyone else. Scout now realizes that Calpurnia is living two different lives and the woman who was close to being her mother couldn’t take that place in the eyes of the community because she was black. A detail to support this is in, Chapter, pg, “I felt Calpurnia’s hand dig into my shoulder. “What you want, Lula?” she asked, in tones I had never heard her use. She spoke quietly, contemptuously. “I wants to know