Examples Of Racial Minorities In To Kill A Mockingbird

Racial minority in To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird a book written by Harper Lee the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has many lessons in the text. The book was published July 11, 1960. The book take place in Maycomb, Alabama resembling Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville. During 1933 to 1935. Harper Lee is telling a story about a black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a young white girl named Mayella Ewell. Black people in the story play a big role in To Kill A Mockingbird, they teach lessons throughout the book. Lessons are taught through character and how they are treated. Racial minority characters teach important lessons, they are disrespected and they are not seen equal to any white folks. Main lessons are learned from Calpurnia and Tom Robinson. How does the disrespect of colored people teach us how it teaches lessons?

Calpurnia is a mother figure to the Finch kids, Jem and Scout. The Finch family treats Calpurnia as if she is one of them. Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her church to show how different the churches for the coloured people are from the white churches. When Calpurnia takes the kids to the colored church and is criticized for bringing non-colored folks to the church “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). Jem and Scout are welcomed and accepted by everyone else as if they are colored folk also. This shows that Calpurnia shows how the colored community acts and how it is different from the white community. White people think that colored folk are less than them, colored folk are like the white folk just different colors. Colored people do not have as much as the non-colored just because they are