Theme Of Anger In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The society will not accept that she seduced a black man, her feeling of guilt motivated her to remove him out of her way "I got something to say and then I ain 't gonna say no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me and if you fine fancy gentlemen don 't want do nothing about it then you 're all yellow stinking cowards, stinking cowards, and the lot of you. Your fancy airs don 't come to nothing and Miss Mayellering don 't come to nothing, Mr. Finch”. ( Lee 167). This is another kind of racism between man and woman, she does not have the right to dream, to love, to learn, there is always someone that thinks for her and tells her what she should and should not do. She is oppressed, she is angry because she is not free. When Atticus faced her with this truth and respects her needs of having a better life for herself in the trial scene, she thought he is making fun of her and refused to answer his question, this scene unveil Mayella’s anger, actually by saying that anger has two types positive anger and negative anger, this one can be considered as a negative one. The Ewells know that they were the poorest in the novel, the only thing that gives them value is they are white; they use this to discriminate themselves. Bob Ewell, is Mayella’s father, the villain of the novel and most figures that struts hatred to the African Americans. Bob Ewell has no money, no education, he wants his life to be better, and he pours his anger on whoever is weaker than him. He bashes