Literary Devices Used In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee it talks about racism towards colored folks. What some people don’t seem to notice is that in the book, there is also racism towards white folks, such as some of the colored people thinking that whites think they can just do what they want to do because they seem to be more free. In this passage, the literary elements of mood, tone, diction, and conflict help develop the theme that people aren’t as much criticized, or bashed on by who they are, but by what they look like referring to their skin color. The mood of Calpurnia and Zeebo defending both Scout and Jem against Lula makes Scout realize another side to them, as to caring for them more then she had thought they did, enough to stand

Since Scout and Jem felt unwelcomed by Lula saying that they don’t belong there, and that the church wasn’t for them, they wanted to leave the church to not cause any sort of trouble, or conflict with lula and Calournia. “Let’s go home, Cal, they don’t want us here-” said Jem (158). Even when Cal was saying that it was alright for them to stay, and to not mind Lula and all she was saying, especially what some of the crowd around them was saying, the Finch kids still felt that it was best to leave. “I agreed: they did not want us here,” thought Scout (159). Without even doing anything wrong, they felt as if they had done something wrong, and Lula had no good reason to make them feel this way just because she felt like they didn’t belong there, and according to Calpurnia, it was no difference if they went to a white church or black church because it was still although the same God. As for Lula, Scout had some of her own reasons to think of her as she did by the diction she used when she first saw

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- they got their church, we got our’n” complained Lula to Calpurnia (158). Not only was she being racist towards them, but she was being racist to the Finches, which seemed to be the only family in the town of Maycomb to stand up, and not criticize the colored folks, such as Atticus did for them in the courts, which was Jem and Scout’s