ipl-logo

Summary Of Chapter 15 To Kill A Mockingbird '

473 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: The affect of racism of to kill a mockingbird

Chapter 15

8. When Atticus says that the Klan is gone, he is incorrect because although there may not be any official “Ku Klux Klan,” there will always be people whose ideas about races differ from the ones around them, and sooner or later, they will start to band together and form something similar to the Ku Klux Klan. For example, when Atticus was at the jail, a mob of drunken men had come in order to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. This mob could represent ideas similar to the Ku Klux Klan at that time.

Chapter 16
9. I think Mr. Underwood was covering Atticus at the jail because he is familiar with Atticus and doesn’t want to see him get seriously injured. Another reason I think he was protecting Atticus at the jail was that he may have wanted to get the story of the trial of a white man defending a colored man and he didn’t want to have his story ruined by a mob who would kill Atticus to get to his headline person. …show more content…

Mr. Dolphus Raymond is seen to be already drunk early in the morning. He also sits with the colored people at the courthouse square because he was said to marry with a white woman, but was caught with one of his colored woman. He also is seen in the story to be drinking out of a brown paper bag with two straws which is supposed to be whiskey. He sits with the colored people because he “married” a colored woman and had mixed children with her, which he loves, and prefers the colored people over the white people. His effect on the town makes the people question and wonder how and if white and color people mix and diffuse together. Especially because Mr. Dolphus Raymond sits with the colored folks and loves his mixed children, he breaks the “clear cut” rules and boundaries socially for

Show More
Related
1703 Words | 7 Pages

Pages 1-55 In the beginning of the book we meet Aibileen, a black maid in Jackson, Mississippi. She works for Mrs. Elizabeth Leefolt (“Miss” Leefolt), a scrawny twenty-three-year-old lady who has just had a baby girl named Mae Mobley. We see that Mae Mobley is a cranky baby for her mother, though Aibileen has no trouble at all with the child. This is due to the fact that Miss Leefolt is not an engaged mother; she is ill-equipped and disinterested in raising her own child, despite the fact that she tends to shows signs of jealousy when her daughter prefers the Aibileen.

Read More
700 Words | 3 Pages

Atticus takes a stand by standing up for Tom Robinson. He stands up for him when the mob tries to harm him. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, In Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus goes to the jail to sit guard outside the night before Tom Robinson's trial, in the hope of stopping a lynch mob coming for him. At the end of chapter 15, Atticus and the children go to the office to guard Tom Robinson. Afterward, a group of anonymous men arrives at the scene to lynch the young African American man.

Read More
801 Words | 4 Pages

TKAMB chapters 15-17 S.I.R by Tri Nguyen 1. In chapter 15, Heck Tate’s mob wanted to talk to Atticus that Tom Robinson have been moved to Maycomb Jail, and that there might be trouble concerning Atticus and Tom Robinson. It stated on page 165, “Mr. Tate was saying, “I don’t look for any trouble, but I can’t guarantee there won’t be any . . .” This show that as the trial are coming nearer, the people are getting more impatient, and this would cause them to act violence not only to the Negroes, but also to their fellow kind. This also show that prejudice can change a person point of view, and make them think only about their superiority over Negroes even though some of them are no better than the Negroes themselves, like the Ewell and the Cunningham.

Read More
686 Words | 3 Pages

Tai Le Ms.Stewart English 1/ Period 2 January 8, 2018 The Misconceptions In To Kill A Mockingbird Misconceptions shows how easy it is for our judgements and perceptions to be misguided. People are quick to spread what they think is true, shrouding the truth in false informations. A misconception is a wrong belief or view, and it was shown a lot in Harper Lee’s

Read More
213 Words | 1 Pages

Mr Raymond Dolphus shows another form of resistance in the face of those social norms when he preferred to marry a black woman and have mixed race children cursed to never belonging to either groups so to prevent that from happening he sent the elder one to the north of the country where a change of people’s views is happening .Even with his wealth, he did not chose a bourgeois white woman, his behaviour was measured as pure madness thus he was out-cased from the society. Even though, he can easily leave Maycomb behind him and go anywhere because of his financial prosperity, he chose to stay and try to bend the rules of this town where he’s born and raised by claiming drunkenness cause to him they “ could never, never understand that I live

Read More
968 Words | 4 Pages

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too”(Lee 269). Dolphus Raymond is a white man who came rich family. But he chose to marry a black woman and had children with her.

Read More
147 Words | 1 Pages

Mr. Dolplus Raymond is a wealthy white man who lives a life split between two identities in society. In public, he's a drunk who lives with blacks, when he's white; who as mixed children. “What's a mixed child?”Half white, half colored. You've seen ‘em, Scout. (215 Harper).

Read More
163 Words | 1 Pages

At the jail the previous night, Mr. Cunningham did not love Tom Robinson. God does not say love your white neighbors as yourself, he says to love all of your neighbors as yourself. Mr. Cunningham introduced race into the situation and was prepared to attack Atticus

Read More
578 Words | 3 Pages

In Chapter 12 of Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many events and situations in which irony is used to support the theme of the chapter. An example of this is in the very beginning of the chapter, when Scout is concerned about how distant and moody Jem is acting, and asks Atticus, “’Reckon he’s got a tapeworm?’” (Lee 153), to which Atticus replies no, and that Jem is growing. This is dramatic irony because the readers understand that Jem is acting oddly because he’s growing, but Scout doesn’t know this until she asks Atticus about it. This quote supports the theme of Chapter 12 by showing when Jem started to grow distance from Scout, getting aggravated with her and telling her to stop bothering him, and shows how the children

Read More
671 Words | 3 Pages

This shows that Mr. Raymond is willing to live with this lie in order to satisfy his neighbors' need to understand his lack of racism. Just like the mockingbird he means no harms to anyone and wishes only to live in peace with his family. Furthermore, Mr Raymond symbolizes a mockingbird because he doesn't like to fight. For instance, when scout asked him why does he pretend he’s drunk, he says When I come to town, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond's in the clutches of whiskey—that's why he won't change his ways. He can't help himself, that's why he lives the way he does" it indicates that Mr. Raymond's leads a double life instead of fighting for what he believes in.

Read More
856 Words | 4 Pages

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird teaches many good lessons about people. In this book, Jem and Scout are able to witness everyday situations in which people are not treated the same or do not have the same way of life. The children get to see and understand the Tom Robinson trial. They also see how other people lives are different from theirs, including the lives of the Cunningham’s, the Ewell’s, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. The children are also able to make their own opinions about most of the situations that they see.

Read More
450 Words | 2 Pages

That’s one part I didn’t like about the book. The stereotypes of the black families of Maycomb. As soon as Bob Ewell turned Tom Robinson in for “raping” his daughter the whole white community believed it because he was black. He was a kind, loving father and husband. But no one bothered to get to know the real him or see past the color of his skin to really know that.

Read More
4088 Words | 17 Pages

This essay aims to investigate the literary context of Harper Lee 's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) from four different perspectives. The scope of this essay does not only include the context from historical, cultural and social points of views, but also the significance of Lee 's early life is considered. The essay explores deeply the novel 's events, characters and main themes, which can all be related to the literary context. This is why the research question of this essay is “A Study of Literary Context in Harper Lee 's To Kill A Mockingbird”. To Kill A Mockingbird never fails to amaze a reader because of its audacity, as it brings out many controversial issues from 1930s America.

Read More
886 Words | 4 Pages

Atticus lets and African American raise his kids and lets them attend an African American church. Atticus doesn 't treat colored people differently. Atticus strongly believes to love

Read More
671 Words | 3 Pages

The story represents the culmination of Wright’s passionate desire to observe and reflect upon the racist world around him. Racism is so insidious that it prevents Richard from interacting normally, even with the whites who do treat him with a semblance of respect or with fellow blacks. For Richard, the true problem of racism is not simply that it exists, but that its roots in American culture are so deep it is doubtful whether these roots can be destroyed without destroying the culture itself. “It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as "white" people came from the fact that many of my relatives were "white"-looking people. My grandmother, who was white as any "white" person, had never looked "white" to me” (Wright 23).

Read More

More about Summary Of Chapter 15 To Kill A Mockingbird '

Related Topics

Open Document