Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
Racism is widespread throughout the town of Maycomb, and many of the occupants in the town hold derogatory and classist views.
When Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, goes on trial, despite a sufficient amount of evidence proving him innocent, he is found guilty by an all-white jury. An example of this unbridled racism is during Tom Robinson’s trail only white people can sit in the main section of the courtroom and Black people are confined to the balcony.
During the trial, when Bob Ewell takes the stand, he repeatedly uses racial slurs against Tom. Not only does
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He reads with Scout every night and teaches Jem to be respectful. But most of all, Atticus teaches his kids vital life lessons. He teaches them to respect others and be kind, how to react to people who openly criticise him when he takes the Tom Robinson case and most of all to be empathetic to others and not judge someone based on rumours or preconceived opinions.
Boo Radley displays his affection for Scout and Jem though anonymous gifts he places in the knothole in of an Oaktree and towards the end of the story when he protects them from Bob Ewell. An example of love in the novel is in chapter 15, when a mob surrounds Atticus at the jailhouse, Jem’s refusal to leave his father’s side demonstrates his love and loyalty for Atticus and when the Finch family is going home, Atticus’s loving gesture towards Jem doesn’t go unnoticed by Scout. “I assumed that Atticus was giving Jem hell for not going home, but I was wrong. As they passed under a streetlight, I saw Atticus massage Jem’s hair, his one gesture of