Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

There are plenty of destructive forces in the world with the that may destroy our humanity, beat down on our beliefs and criticize our morals: ignorance, anger and greed but none of them as bad as racism. The world's worst kind of prejudice is racism, and as illustrated in "To Kill a Mockingbird," it ruins the lives of those who suffer from it. During the time this book was written, racism was acceptable, but To Kill a Mockingbird shows the world a whole different side of the time. Some people were trying to reverse this curse. Like every other situation in life, there is always that one person that doesn't agree. In Maycomb County, Alabama, there were plenty of those. Racism presents itself in many ways in the town of Maycomb, some are blatant

Another apparent example is the bullying Jem and Scout had to endure as a result of Atticus’s appointment as Tom Robinson’s defense attorney. A less easily discernible case is the persecution of Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who chose to live his life in close relation with the colored community. Most of the people in Maycomb didn’t want anything to do with Tom Robinson’s family including Helen Robinson. On the other hand, Calpurnia lived a double life, she wasn’t racist but she did go back and forth with the situation. Mayella Ewell was attracted to Tom Robinson, probably more because she was desperately lonely and he was geographically convenient than for any substantive reason. Life in Maycomb wasn’t an ordinary day for anyone, the days always came with surprises for

Tom Robinson is the black man that was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Falsely accused by Mayella's father, Bob Ewell, Tom was brought in front of a white, prejudice jury. Tom Robinson’s side of the story was that Mayella asked him to come fix the hinges on the door in the house. Mayella already had all this planned if she had saved enough nickels to send all of the children out for ice cream so she and Tom would be alone. Then she asked Tom to climb up on a chair to get a box, and as he stood there, she grabbed him around the legs. When he hopped down off the chair, she jumped on him. She kissed him on the side of the face, Tom wanted to move away and had to push Mayella away from the door. She was not hurt. Mayella was lonely and depress, she only did this to catch attention from people so they can feel bad for her and she knew accusing a black male (Tom Robinson) would do the job. The Ewells are rascals that don't care for anyone else but themselves. She was not really frightened. If the Ewells won the case they would get money, which she and her dad wanted. She may have been afraid of her dad, because her dad was behind it a lot, but she certainly wasn't raped. Tom Robinson was handicap, he had a shriveled and crippled arm which meant that he couldn’t have choke Mayella and left hand-print bruises around her neck. Tom