How Does Lee Present A Racial Issue In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill A Mockingbird
The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a lawyer family in a drowsy small town, during the great depression. His family experiences the unfairness of racial discrimination through the trial of an innocent black man called Tom Robinson who accused of raping a white woman. The story focuses on the life of Scout and Jem who are two of the main characters in the novel and their relationships with their family, their neighbors, and the big community of Macomb, Alabama.
In this book, Harper Lee represents us serial events that change the way Scout and Jem think about this world. Like them, I was also taught by some events that teachers in the school can’t teach me. Jem gradually grows up to a real man, who realize the existence of social …show more content…

When Jem was told that Tom Robinson’s case was failed. “His face was streaked with angry tears as we make our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It aint’ right,’ he muttered all the way to the corner of the square where we found Atticus waiting…'It ain’t right, Atticus,”’said Jem.’No son, it’s not right.’ We walked home. After that, Jem finally realize the unfair and race inequality at that time. After that, he still looks like the same as he used to be. But inside himself, he grow up to a real young man. There is also a event that makes me grow so much inside myself. The last year of my middle was like a war for us. The exam all the middle school students are the one that can determine a student future, not just a student, but also a teacher’s and a school’s. A lot of teachers want to get a higher grade of their students. The method they like is to give up the bad students and pretend they are not even their students. So many friends of mine, they changed so much after middle school. They stop learning. The kids whose parents are rich, they just go