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Misjudging People In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Days in Maycomb have never been normal for Boo Radley or Tom Robinson, over the years they get misunderstood and judged for reasons they don’t even understand. They only have two reason they could possibly “hate them”, rumors people are spreading and the sheer fact that people hated African American people. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, “Boo the Monster” rests from the comfort of his home while he gazes at Jem, Scout, and Dill, which he sees he’s being mimicked for the things he “has done”. Tom Robinson stares back at a large crowd of angry people for a crime he didn’t commit but has no way to prove it. Racism is a horrible thing but in Maycomb Alabama, it was at it’s peak. Misjudging people is something that happens so much in Maycomb it’s crazy but, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson get it the worse out of everybody.

Boo Radley is like a shadow in the night and never comes out during the day or the night. He sits at home all day everyday gazing at Jem and …show more content…

Many people are mistreated but it had happened to Boo and Tom the most no matter what the other people races. Although, it could happen to anyone, black or white but it was more often than not black males that got mistreated and misjudged the most. While racism is an awful thing and continues to exist today, the people of Maycomb could have done many things to stop it but no one stepped up to really put their foot on racism and crush it. From everything that had happened, misjudging people for their skin tone or religion has gone on for too long and has led to many incidents like Holocaust and/or Slavery and needs to get shut down so we don’t have something like this

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This is proven when Atticus says “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” (220) Atticus is saying that nobody in Maycomb would ever treat a black man the same as a white man. They completely forgot about their integrity. This makes them a villain because they are prejudiced against Tom Robinson.

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The story, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is about prejudice, which reveals that prejudice can cause wrongful imprisonment. The character Tom Robinson represents the struggles and injustices faced by African Americans in the 1930s South. Prejudice was just one of the many things they tolerated during this period, and Tom shows this as he is judged on his skin and imprisoned unlawfully. Not only this, but Maycomb is a predominantly racist town, which helps develop the motif. When Harper Lee made Maycomb set in the South, it showed an aspect of life that African Americans who lived in southern areas could associate with.

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Ewell and Mayella’s reason to accuse Tom shows that they were actually a lot smarter than we previously thought. They had a foolproof plan on how to clear their names and sweep this whole situation under the rug. "Your father's no better than the ni***** and trash he works for!" (Lee 117) This quote shows that the people in Maycomb, and in general back then, acted like you had to lower yourself to even speak to black people.

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Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home-” (Lee 283). Scout teacher is a perfect example of how the citizens of Maycomb act regularly. Almost every character, at some point, makes a comment about something they view as wrong, but then turns around and judges others within the community. Most of the time, people have opinions about others before they get to know them. Boo Radley never comes out of the house, so the other characters should not be judging him because they have never met

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After reading Mr. Underwood’s editorial, Scout realizes: “Atticus had every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case” (Lee 276). Sadly, at this time in the South, slaves were free but black people still were under the Jim Crow laws and people did not see them as valued humans. Maycomb was blind and did not want to acknowledge his problems. Prejudice is the reason that Robinson was put in jail and later killed. Furthermore, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson functions as an innocent mockingbird symbol.

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The testimonies reveal how deep-rooted the racism within Maycomb runs, as it is present even in court rulings and how casually present it is. The court is taking place, and the order of prosecutor’s witnesses who are: Mr. Heck Tate, the sheriff; Mr. Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father; and Mayella Ewell, the one who is accusing Tom Robinson of raping her. When it’s Mr. Ewell’s turn to speak, he does so with many racial slurs and slang embedded in his accusations. When relaying what he saw to the jury, he points at Tom and yells “―I seen that black n*gger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” Mr. Ewell, who, although, has never been a part of a court case or viewed one, doesn’t truly care, or notice, that so far into the formal case, not one person has used racial slang to talk about Tom, and uses the term n*gger quite casually.

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