One themes of To Kill A Mockingbird is that racism doesn’t die over time. Throughout the entire time of the book we’ve heard and been told about the racism during that time period. It shows how racist people were back when it was “common” to be like that. It has never truly stopped over the time, it has just been quietly done but now it is wrongful to be racist. In the book characters were racist and it showed how bad it was. For instance Bob Ewell and Walter Cunningham Sr. were examples of being racist. Walter was a kind man and it was hard to tell he was racist because of how hard he worked and how Atticus talked about him with respect but he was with lynch mob after Tom Robinson. It shows how everyone can be racist even if they don’t seem …show more content…
In the book it says that Tom Robinson had raped and beaten Mayella Ewell. Everyone believed that to be true and there was no evidence to prove he was guilty. That shows how powerful racism was because they accused a man of rape with zero evidence just based on his skin color. If he was white the court would have looked at all the evidence and spent the correct about of time evaluating the case but they based it off his skin color and there hate for African Americans. It shows how racism can corrupt people and make things unfair. Even now it is still and issue, there has been shootings and killing of African Americans that you can see are trying to corporate still get shot. Nothing happens to the cops that shoot and kill them because African Americans are viewed as bad and rude and violent people but that’s not always the case. You can’t judge someone off of another person actions and say that all black people are criminals just because some of them happen to be. There are other people with different skin tones that are criminals but there whole race isn’t viewed as bad or anything. So racism never does truly die, it just settles down and gets