To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis

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The world is a vast place with many different varieties of people. From different skins, different cultures, different styles, and different opinions, everyone is, in some way, different from one another. Learning how to accept others can be challenging, but very rewarding as it can help to learn more about the different cultures that we have never heard about. However, in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the author shows that there are still some people who doesn’t support the idea of living peacefully among the others who are different from them. The town of Maycomb is one example where people’s hate toward one another causes the town’s residences to be more divided among themselves. From a very young age, Jem and Scouts …show more content…

Turn out, the case was a complete failure because of the unfair system of the court. After Dill suddenly cry during the trial, Mr. Dolphus Raymond comforts him and says, “Cry about the hell white people give colored folks-without even stopping to think that they’re people, too”(Harper 229). What Mr. Dolphus says indicates that Dill can feel the unfairness treatment that everyone in the courtroom is giving to the Robinson. This is significant because even though Tom Robinson is described as a kind and truthful man who, in modern society, would be respected by others, his black skin causes him to have to burden all these insults and discrimination. In the end, he was unanimously declared guilty. , “It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd (242). In this quote, the readers can see that there are two things that contradicts each other, a happy cheerful crowd and a sad crying boy. Jem is crying because of the ...While many others within the town are very discriminated against black skin people, Jem doesn’t have the same