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How Do People Treat African Americans Differently

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How come people are treating African Americans differently than how they treat white people? People believe that we treat African Americans differently is because of their skin color and because they think that they are bad. American people are just as bad, people think just because their skin color that they are “up to no good.” In the modern world people don't separate them as much as they did back then. In this book there is something bad that happens. The thing that is so bad is someone was accused of rape and they didn't even do it. This “someone's” name is Tom Robinson. Tom is African American and lives in the south. He has a wife and kids. There is a trial that goes on for him and Atticus is the only person in the case that is defending …show more content…

Mayella was abused by her father. Mayella has to take care of her siblings because her dad is always drunk and never home. This is the reason she feels lonely and abandoned. The example, why Mayella feels lonely and abandoned is because her only friend was Tom, and she left him and blamed him for something he didn't do. Tom helped Mayella everyday with something and he was her only friend so that's the only other person that she could blame other than her dad. Her dad made her lie and say it was Tom so he didn't get in trouble for beating her up. “When Atticus asked had she any friends, she seemed not to know what he meant, then she thought he was making fun of her,” (Atticus 31), is a quote that shows that Mayella has no friends and is lonely. The court had a trial for this case and the outcome was bad because Tom was found guilty for something he didn't do. Later, when he was in jail, he tried to escape and didn't get very far and got shot then died right

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