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How Does Tom Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee wrote about a family of three. Atticus, a widow husband, raises his children, Jem and Scout, along with a maid named Calpurnia. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, the reader is presented with racism which is something that Jem and Scout did not understand in the beginning. A big, specific event in the book was Tom Robinson’s case. Atticus, being a lawyer, decides to defend Tom in his case because he feels that it is the right thing to do, since he knew no one else would; due to the fact that Tom was black. Tom was a man accused of rape and was found guilty even though the evidence clearly proved otherwise. Jem and Scout mature a lot during …show more content…

"You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?" (Lee 119). At the church, Lula did not welcome the kids and made them feel odd simply because they were white. "We're mighty glad to have you all here. Don't pay no 'tention to Lula, she's contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. She's a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an' haughty ways—we're mighty glad to have you all" (Lee 119). Even though Lula was angry because Calpurnia took the kids to their church, all the other black church members joyfully welcomed …show more content…

Throughout the book, the whites are seen as a higher class than the blacks. Even in court, where everyone is supposed to be treated equally, Tom was still being treated bad because of his color. Just because Bob and Mayella were white and were accusing a black man, automatically Tom was seen as a bad person and wasn’t believed. All of the evidence proved him innocent but no one believed that he was telling the truth. Jem and Scout have changed due to people treating other races differently because they understand how nasty the world and the people in the world can be. The kids faced so many racist situations in their life that they now know what and what not to expect from others. The reader can be changed by reading the book because it describes how the life of a person can be affected if they are mistreated by their skin color. Learning that a person’s life can be affected due to being treated unfairly because of race makes the reader not want to judge

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In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout and Jem Finch live in the small town known as Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Over time, Scout learns about the town’s true identity. She and Jem are forced to work for Mrs. Dubose, an old woman who seems to hate children. Accompanying this, Scout and Jem are stuck fearing the lunatic who only comes out from his rickety old home at night, Boo Radley. Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s father, was appointed as a lawyer to help defend Tom Robinson, a struggling black man who was framed for abusing Mayella Ewell.

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When they walked up to the front, a nasty black woman named Lula came up and told Cal “‘You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here’” (158). Scout was scared that none of them wanted the children there with Calpurnia because they were white and that their presence wasn’t appreciated; she later found out that they were wanted. Zeebo, the garbage man explained “‘we’re mighty glad to have you all here’” (159). Calpurnia said there were going to be no issues with the children going with her and that the lady was not used to white people coming to their church.

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In chapter 12 when Calpurnia was stopped for bringing white children into the church, suggesting that there is equal ignorance and racism from blacks to white as there is whites to blacks. Rather they are only stopped by one women making me assume the other blacks in town are more civilized and non-racist towards the whites and choose to conform to their norm. Since Lula is the only one to stand against the white children entering their church this suggest that she is ignorant and rude toward the Finches, since it was her way of getting revenge for all the racism that she had received by other

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus finch is displayed as a father of two. Atticus is a lawyer who lives in the town of Maycomb with his two children Scout and Jem. In the setting the novel takes place in, Maycomb is a town broken by the great depression and society. The Great Depression caused many people to lose their jobs and several people around the town are struggling to keep a roof above their heads. Society has created segregation causing minorities to be discriminated.

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Go Set a Watchman” says that white people in that time do not want to change. They listen to the way things have always been (Crow 4). Jean Louise grows up thinking her father believes in equality and that is why she believes that. She treats Calpurnia the same way she treats anyone until she finds out about Atticus. She forgets about Calpurnia because she starts following the way the white people acted in the southern

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To Kill a Mockingbird is set in a small Alabama town in the 1930s being narrated by a six-year-old white girl named Jean Louise Finch or Scout as everyone calls her. She is the daughter of Atticus Finch, a lawyer defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Scout has a brother named Jem, who is four years older and plays a major role in helping Scout deal with the events surrounding the trial. Although the children’s father establishes great defense, Tom Robinson is convicted and sentenced to hang; however, Tom is shot while trying to escape. The story takes place over a three-year period, a time in which Jem and Scout learn about racism, prejudice, and moral issues (Shields

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Even Calpurnia is told she “ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n". This particular satire could be both a reversal and an incongruity. In the situation the African American church goers are shunning the Caucasians, which is the opposite of the oppression of the blacks in the time period making a reversal. The morals of the Christian church are to love you neighbor; the judgment, inside the church no less, is out of place and calls the reader's attention to the hypocrisy of the church. Harper Lee’s examples of juvenalian satire effectively alert the reader to the injustices being done in school and

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When Jem and Scout went to Calpurnia's church they faced that some people didn’t want them there because of their skin color. By being pointed out for their skin color it makes them feel uncomfortable enough to want to go home and makes them feel segregated because Lula calls it a black church. Lula said, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?” Calpurnia defended the children by saying, “It’s the same God, ain’t it?”

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Even at the sight of Lula, Scout found her in an unflattering way and sort of a rough person. “She was bullet-headed with strange almond-Shaped eyes, straight nose, and an Indian-bow mouth” thought Scout describing Lula when first laying her eyes on her (158). With the words Lula chose to say, made her sound in a way racist to Jem and Scout because of the fact that they had their own church. Not only did Lula sound upset because of them, but she also sounded especially upset at Calpurnia for being the one to bring Jem and Scout to the church, where it was, according to Lula, their church, not theirs. “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-

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Through this simple act of kindness, it demonstrates how this black community wanted to thank Atticus for all he had done for their friend. Atticus tells Calpurnia for this to never happen again because he knows that times are rough, but that he is very grateful for what they had done for him and his family. True southern hospitality cut across class lines and demonstrates the generosity and heart felt concern of the people for

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In To Kill A Mockingbird when at the church people are mad that calpurnia brought white children to an all black church. “You ain’t got business bringin’ white chillen here -- they got there church, we got ours. It is our church ain’t it? Miss Cal?” “ Let’s go home, Cal.

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