Leading up to the Civil Rights Movement, the black community was in a constant battle against law enforcement treating them unfair compared to the white community. The Scottsboro Boys and Emmett Till’s cases were one of the many times that the legal system showed to be unfair to blacks. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, the law enforcement and community were very racist against blacks and believed all blacks were criminals. In the story, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer gets put into a very difficult situation and decides to defend a black man, who went by the name of Tom Robinson.
During the the 1930s people didn’t favor blacks. They treated them like pests. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there is a court case going down. Tom Robinson, a black man, is being accused that he raped Mayella Ewell, a white woman. Atticus Finch is trying to defend him and he is having trouble doing it.
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story is set in the 1900’s, Maycomb, Alabama. During this time there was racism in the south and segregation which separated the whites and blacks from everything. There was also the Great Depression, the whole country was poor and people living in the country had to trade and do other jobs for people to either pay them off or to buy something from them. The trial in this book is about Mayella and Bob Ewell, two white people, claiming and arguing that Tom Robinson, a black person, raped Mayella Ewell. This trial is really important because at that time in the south, white people took advantage of black people and their kindness and thought they would take that or shut up just because they were black.
The ever present distaste from whites in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, shows the issues that blacks had to deal with constantly. Lee was able to portray this hatred by putting and important character, Tom Robinson a black man, on an unjust trial for the alleged rape of a white woman, Mayella Ewell. This classic story reveals the awful conditions and intense racism during this time in the southern Unites States. Some of the many African Americans affected by southern white racists in court or otherwise include the Scottsboro
Rosa Parks once said, “Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome”. Many instances within the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” relate to the topic of racism and how it is introduced to children. During the Great Depression, there was an excess amount of stigma that people of color were inferior to white people. This racism in the time period seems to have inspired Harper Lee to write a novel which encompasses this topic.
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the South, where African Americans are seen very differently compared to white people. African Americans were seen as liars, deceptive, and untrustworthy. While white people were very well trusted, no matter how shaky their story is. Tom Robinson is an African American man accused of rape. Mayella Ewell the “victim” if you will is a white woman whose testimony isn’t as good as Toms.
“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past”- Troy Edwards. In To Kill A Mockingbird it gives textual evidence on how racism and justice were used. When African Americans got decremented against, the way we changed that in today’s society is by showing that everyone's equal, everyone has the same right and no race is higher than any other. To Kill A Mockingbird gives multiple examples of how racism was put into action. Tom Robinson was a black man who got accused of raping a white girl.
Literature is a precious art form to many and important for various reasons. Literacy helps improve grammar, provides entertainment, educates people and provides inspiration. It is specifically useful for educating people on racial discrimination as many classic works contain racism. Both To Kill a Mockingbird and The Butler are great at expanding people’s knowledge on racism. Although they have two entirely different plots, they both depict how little people value an African-American’s opinion, characters challenging racism and the acceptance of blatant racism.
During 1960 when this book was written racism was still a thing if you were black you would be discriminated. Tom Robinson was accused of raping and beating a white women Mayella Ewell. He is put on trial and Atticus has taken action and defend him, but he knew that Tom Robinson would have a slim chance of winning because of the jury. The Jury had racial views against Tom Robinson. “The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s against the Ewells”(Chapter 9).
Essay In the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, there are many important messages shown throughout the book. However the primary focus was set on racial prejudice that existed in the 1930s-1940’s in the fictional town of Maycomb County. The racism in the novel was very much a reality in 1930s-1940s America. A very good example of the racial prejudice that existed was in the courtroom during Tom Robinson’s trial, an innocent Negro man held against his will for a crime he did not commit.
Unjust behavior deriving from unfounded opinions, harm caused by opinions and judgment, and being biased, all of which are shown throughout the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. With that knowledge, it is clear how races, especially in the 1900s, were unfairly treated in their countries, states, towns, schools, and even homes. The Tom Robinson case took place in the courthouse of Maycomb County. Tom is held accountable for the rape of a white woman, Mayella Ewell, on the evening of November 21, 1934. Atticus’ thought upon it is, “In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.
Racism can be introduced to anyone in a novel titled “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Author of the novel Harper Lee, decides to introduce the problem in her book, taking place in the 1930’s, specifically during the Great Depression. Racism is a social issue in the novel all around, in which no trouble should be caused to acknowledge it. Straight from the start, Harper Lee chooses to introduce Maycomb County, a county in which the blacks and whites have separate communities (Lee).
As Laura Bugsbee’s feet pounded against the tarmac, she spotted the bee in her peripheral vision flying madly after her. “Get away from me!” she exclaimed as she ran wildly to escape the bee. She saw her house in the distance, and with a cry of relief, increased her speed. When she got to her buttercup yellow front door, she sprinted inside and shut the door with no time to spare.
The challenges that I faced last semester within this classroom was mainly home reading and writing, such as reading How to Kill A Mockingbird. This was a challenge for me to read over the break and weekends because frankly I’m not very fond of reading fictional things and things that have really no general interest towards myself. I just didn’t want to do the reading, which is a huge factor on my part, it’s not the wisest decision I’m aware of that, to not do assignments because I find them useless to me, but it’s hurting my grade which is having the biggest impact on me.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we must not decide for others. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the south during the great depression. In that time period tensions between African Americans and white people was still very high. Tension was so high that when Tom Robinson, a black man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white
