Paulina Ortega Book Report: To Kill A Mockingbird In the book , To Kill A Mockingbird is a good representation that shows the issues of race, class, and gender roles as well as the disturbance of innocence as the main characters undergo significant changes. As the story continues, Scout the narrator remembers the summer her and her older brother Jem meet Dill a boy from Meridian, Mississippi who happens to spend summers with his aunt who is the Finch’s next door neighbor, Dill attempts to get Boo Radley out of his house by trying to play all sorts of games. As the story goes on 2 days before summer Dill arrives to his aunt’s house as for that leads to Jem & Dill to makeup a game that would then lead to one of them sending a note to try and convince Boo Radley to come out , Scout knows that the only reason why her …show more content…
In Scout’s way of thinking and expressing herself , she thinks that African Americans are just “ negros “ from lack of knowledge. It is also fair to say that the matured Scout ,the Scout telling the story has become to understand the mistake of thinking that any human being is lesser than the other based on the color of their skin. All in truth , Tom embarrasses Mayella by refusing to move forward with the accusations as well as Mayella embarrasses her father by making up false accusations towards a black man. The reason being why is because Bob Ewell’s pride can’t afford a black man going back to his community talking about a white woman making a pass at him. To conclude all of this Tom’s testimony actually embarrasses the Ewell’s even more ; when he confesses to the court that Mayella had asked him to kiss her. Tom is a compassionate man, and ironically his acts of kindness are responsible , at least indirectly for his current situation. In the society of Maycomb , basic human kindness from a black person to a white person is impermissible. The all white jury is in an awkward position. If they