Canadians are treating Aboriginal people as if they are a less valued part of our society. The government does not provide clean water, good housing or a suitable education to those living on reserves. This is a concern to many citizens in Canada. It is as if society is moving backwards. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the children are not at first aware of segregation in their community until they mature. Canada as a country is maturing and releasing its mistakes. As Scout matures she is exposed to segregation in her community that is still present today in First Nations communities across Canada.
Scout experiences segregation for the first time when she attends church at First Purchase with Calpurnia. Calpurnia is a good housekeeper and is gentle with the kids
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The blacks and whites sit separately and when a white person sits with the blacks the blacks move to make room. “Four Negroes rose and gave us their front-row seats. The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.” (164) Mid way through the trial when Tom is being questioned he says something that creates a disturbance in the crowd. “‘Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her... You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?’ Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling.” (197) As a black man Tom is the lowest class of person in Maycomb. The Ewell’s are above him on the social ladder because they are white. In this town a black man should never feel sorry for a white woman because that would mean the black man is better than the white woman. The all white jury convict Tom Robinson of the rape of Mayella Ewell. To the reader Tom is an innocent man but to a racist southern town how could a black man not be guilty. “A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom