What causes Miss Maudie to say that they have a least made a “baby step” in the right direction is the trial of Tom Robinson and the fact that Atticus was defending him. For a very long time, the African American community was being treated/defended poorly so the fact that someone like Atticus is defending Tom (even if he might lose) is a step forward from the years before.
Chapter 23
After Bob Ewell makes threats at Atticus, he makes no reaction out of the situation and continues on with his day as if it had not happened. He knows that Bob still holds a grudge against humiliating the Ewell name in court, and this is how he expresses it. Atticus also does not react because he knows that this may save Mayella from another beating, which he will happily try and stop from occurring.
Jem can not accept Scout’s opinion that there is “just one kind of folks-folks.” because, although he used to believe in Scout’s opinion, he now thinks that there are four different types of people. "There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes." (pg.302) He explains to Scout that in the world there are “regular” people like themselves, poor people who are like the Cunninghams, even
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The irony between Miss Gates’ lecture on democracy when compared to her comments at the trial is the fact she herself is a “Hitler-like” figure who despises the African Americans instead of the Jews. During her lecture, she points out that America is a democracy so we do not persecute anyone unlike Hitler in Germany who is a dictatorship, yet outside of the court she expresses how the African American community “..were gettin’ way above themselves.” (pg.331) which is ironic because how can she hate Hitler so much if she herself is turning as ugly as