Examples Of Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Rumors and Verbal Violence

Have you ever heard that the great French militarist and politician Napoleon Bonaparte was really short, and his height is less than 1.6 meters? This statement has spread almost all over the world and it has aroused people's discussion. However, indeed Napoleon was 1.68 meters high. Suchlike rumors are countless, no matter what areas and periods. Most of the rumors were actually caused by uninformed people's curiosity, gossip and their own bias. To be specific, when people hear incomplete information about a person from several hostile people, they won't recognize and question whether it is true or not, just because this rumor can gratify their curiosity, and give a plausible answer to fill in the blank of their cognition

The typical character who usually say some bad things about Atticus is Mrs. Dubose. As Mrs. Dubose noted, “Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the courthouse lawing for niggers! […] Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for” (Lee 117). In Mrs. Dubose’s words, the father is Atticus and the nigger represent Tom Robinson. Mrs. Dubose remained an intense and negative bias to Finch family, and her words that are related to black people was extremely impolite, which indicates that Mrs. Dubose kept strong racial discrimination. In fact, Atticus did defend Tom Robinson who was black before, but no one knows that Atticus guarded for the social justice. Because of incomplete information and her own prejudices, she did not care about the truth of the matter at all, thus this event gave her a good reason to achieving her goal of blaming and insulting

Tom Robinson was an honesty and kindness man, but he was framed by Mayella and her father Bob Ewell, as Bob Ewell noticed in courthouse “I seen that black nigger yonder rutting on my Mayella” (Lee 196). Tom soon became rife with rumors. Plus, he was a black man. Based on people’s prejudice against black, public firmly believed Tom Robinson was very likely to do the bad things and most of them were blaming Tom rather than questioning Mayella and her father. This prejudice led most of jury members to vote that Tom was guilty, and Tom was ultimately sent to prison and reviled by the residents. This tragedy is fundamentally due to the rumors made by Mayella and her father