Blacks should not be treated differently than whites. This is commonly known. It was not fair how they were treated under the Jim Crow laws. They were no different than the most innocent, little baby. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows great symbolism, such as the mockingbird which symbolizes many different things to all of the characters and to the reader including the mockingbirds symbolizing the blacks in the sense that both blacks and mockingbirds were peaceful and caused little harm, both blacks and mockingbirds had been killed though they were perfectly innocent, and they both had no way to escape from being killed. In the same way as the blacks, mockingbirds are accused of things that they did not do even though they …show more content…
It is just like blacks. Blacks got in trouble and blamed for the littlest things. In fact, if something was to be happening to a white person, there was nothing that they could do about it, or they would be accused of hurting the white. They also could not “feel bad” for a white because that would be implying that they are in a higher class than the white person. “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling. The witness realized his mistake and shifted uncomfortably in the chair. But the damage was done. Below us, nobody liked Tom Robinson’s answer. Mr. Gilmer paused a long time to let it sink in.” “Then you say she’s lying, boy?” Atticus was on his feet, but Tom Robinson didn’t need him. “I don’t say she’s lyin‘, Mr. Gilmer, I say she’s mistaken in her mind.” (Page 263-264) “confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption—the evil assumption—that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.” (Page 273) The littlest things caused big uproars. When a black was talking to a white, they needed to be very cautious of what they were