Wesley Mrs Pearson English-10c 5/15/24. Historical lens The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great description of how the social norms and expectations of the black population were in southern Alabama back in the 1930s during the Jim Crow era (which really enforced segregation). Racial conflicts happen a lot in To Kill A Mockingbird,From the perspective of the narrator Scout Finch who had to learn over time that not only are black people treated poorly but they are people too.In the novel she sees how people treated Atticus like pure garbage for even defending them. For example, Mr. Dubose, who was very sick and had the morphine addiction, hated Atticus and his kids Jem and Scout, who constantly yelled at them because their father went “against his raising” (Lee 132). Mrs. Dubose embodies and gives public voice to the values and attitudes of the Old South.Toms Robinson's trial was based off of an actual true trial called scottsboro trial and others like that during that time frame.Emmett still story is like Tom Robinson because Emmett was accused falsely of whistling at a white women so he was later kidnapped,tortured,beaten up,and then lynched for these false claims.Jim Crow laws played a bigger role in To Kill a Example: When Tom Robinson was trying to defend …show more content…
“It's time somebody taught ‘em a lesson, they were gettin’ way above themselves, an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us.”(Lee 331). This is a historical accurate on how people treated black people and people who were called minorities back then and believed that they were less than people and didn't care if they sounded rude or evil with what they said.This is further shown when Scout first learns of Nazi Germany and how they treated the Jews and then realized that the people who are racist and segregate themselves from normal black people were the equivalent of being a Nazi. Cecil Jacobs shares a news article in