Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill a Mockingbird explains some of the racism that happened in the midst of the great depression but without the gruesome detail or realy, the cold hard truth. But it does explain what life was like for a child of that time and gives you a very compelling story. It will sometimes, soften the blow, you could say and can be very brutally honest making it seem very surreal at sometimes.They will explain everything from a small self conscious stereotype all the way up to racism in the court system. This book well cover many different types of racism in a slightly understated way, but you still get the point. It will tell, and show you acts of racism and then in a flowing way explain what is happening, why it happened, and the side

For example when Scout went up to atticus to ask him a question about what somebody had said at school "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. (Lee 108) This shows that Scout did not understand much about the subject and this is the first time that she has ever experienced racism, to a extent. In addition when Calpurnia took Jem and Scout to her church and got yelled at by another church member for bringing them. "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?" This shows that even though jem and scout are just children and had not done anything wrong the other lady from the church found it disrespectful that there were white people in a non white

For example, when Atticus said "Link, that boy might go to the chair, but he's not going till the truth's told." Atticus's voice was even. "And you know what the truth is."(Lee) This is saying that even if Atticus proves that Tom Robinson is innocent he will still likely be executed. As another example, which is not so severe but is still relevant to racism is when Scout asked her uncle about their racial background. "Uncle Jack Finch says we really don't know. He says as far as he can trace back the Finches we ain't, but for all he knows we mighta come straight out of Ethiopia durin' the Old Testament." (Lee) This is when Jem and Scout where trying to find out how society divides people into races and why people don’t accept people of other races. This brings more and more questions for scout about people of different races and what makes them different from white people which she answers her self in the near