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Tom Inhumane In To Kill A Mockingbird

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When Tom is convicted, Jem learns that life isn’t fair. Jem is very confident that Atticus will win the case. However, not everything is equal in life. For example, the negroes in the book are not remotely equal to the whites. The whites get everything, while the blacks slave away for the whites every day. In the book, Jem says “It ain’t right, Atticus.” His dad replies “No son, it’s not.” Jem realizes how much torture that is actually going on. He can’t figure out why whites thought they are superior. He even cries because he thinks it is so unfair. It’s not like Tom chooses to be a negro when he was born. Tom is just born with it. He is already given a disadvantage in life. Atticus explains to the jury that the courtroom should be where all …show more content…

Dolphus Raymond. Scout and Dill realize that the liquid in the brown bag is Coke not liquor. Mr. Raymond deceives everyone by acting like it is liquor. Scout is confused because she thinks he lives a different way of life since he is an alcoholic. Scout asks “Why do you do like you do?” Dolphus replies “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see.” He means he is giving society a reason to thinks he crazy. He has mixed children, and society shuts him out because of it. Scout realizes that Dolphus like negroes. She learns that he isn’t prejudiced and thinks that their society is messed up. Dolphus says “ It’s the way I want to live.” He says this because he despises how everyone treats negroes. He acts like he drinks so that people don’t harass him for having mixed children and a negro wife. He doesn’t want to be bullied for something that is wrong in his opinion. Scout is amazed that he acts differently. She realizes that he is a totally different person than the way he acts. Scout finds out that until you get to know someone, you don’t know how they are personally. Scout thinks he is just a drunk, and that no one thinks he’s a normal person.Yet, he is a regular person with different opinions than others. Scout even said at the beginning “As Mr. Dolphus was an evil man.” As they kept talking, Scout realizes Mr. Raymond is kind of like her. They share the same

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Scout learns this from her encounter with Dolphus Raymond. After he reveals his secret to Scout, he says, "I try to give them a reason, you see. If helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. "- page 268 After hearing this from Dolphus Raymond, himself, it came to Scout's attention that he was absolutely nothing like what they had described him to be.

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Although it makes sense why he would want people to think of him as a drunk rather than have the whole town interrogate him. I don't think that Scout has ever gotten to know Mr. Raymond until now and already she has these strong feeling regarding him, and part of that could be because of the atmosphere she lives in. It is amazing how parents pass on their opinions to their children, even if they don't mean to, they should still monitor what their saying because children can be impressionable and they should be taught better than to judge someone based on what they see, hear or seem to be true. Scout referring to Mr. Raymond as a sinful man makes sense because in the time period this book is based you don't see a lot of interracial marriages, it is looked down upon.

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Jem also opposes the town’s racism. He instead sees the incorrectness of the town in a logical standpoint. During the trial of Tom Robinson, Atticus brings up solid evidence that the attack was not from Tom, but her father Bob Ewell. Jem believes that there is no way that Tom would be declared guilty, he still believes that the town is not racist and thinks that the jury people will think logically about the case. “I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them.”

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After Atticus loses his trial, Jem notices that the Maycomb County justice system is broken and it needs help, “Then it all goes back to the jury, then. We oughta do away with juries. ”(294) This shows that Jem now understands that people are racist in everything and racism needs to be fought. On top of realizing that the justice system is in shambles, Jem realized that Tom Robinson’s case was very good at showing that.

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Raymond's views were new to Scout and got her to see things in other ways. Scouts character is very curious and she is constantly asking questions that the adults don't find appropriate for her age and gender, and questions that they also can not or do not want to answer. Since she is young and is not always informed about the town's problems directly so she has usually is influenced and informed through the conversations adults have with each other or rarely the ones they have with her. Dolphus Raymond has a very memorable conversation with Scout, Jem, and Dill where he tells them about his life and explains that him being the town drunk is just a facade to divert the town from his opposing lifestyle. Scout learns that the paper bag and bottle he carries are not alcohol and that in itself says something about the way the town makes people feel.

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To illustrate, “Tom Robinson is a colored man, Jem. No jury in the world is going to say, ’We think you are guilty, but not very,’ on a charge like that.” (Lee, 251). This quote shows how little faith Atticus had in Tom’s freedom. He knew that he would not win Tom’s trial, no matter how hard he tried, because no jury in 1930s Alabama would take the word of a black man over that of a white man, no matter how much evidence there was to prove the black man’s innocence.

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The character Dolphus Raymond is one of the first motives of a mockingbird ascertained in the novel. The people of Maycomb judge and dislike Dolphus because he is a white man who hangs around with the Negroes. According to others, it is not acceptable to be married to a person of another colour and have children with them, which is the position Dolphus is in. “They don’t belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white, white folks won’t have ‘em ‘cause they’re colored, so they’re just in-betweens, don’t belong anywhere.”

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One of the most significant racial injustices Jem faces involves the Tom Robinson trial. Atticus

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Children know where they and their families stand at a young age and others rebel and make the people “lower” than them feel bad. This is something that is still very common today and makes reading To Kill a Mockingbird important so we can see the change we need. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, we are informed that social inequality leads to the loss of innocence and disorder in society, we are shown the loss of innocence through Mr. Raymond, and the internal thoughts of Scout, especially shown in her relationship with Walter, and we see both destruction and the loss of innocence in the trail with Tom Robinson. Mr. Doulphus Raymond is not the main character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, but he and his family are the precise examples of the loss of innocence because of social inequality. During the period Scout was narrating the book, Doulphus was known as the town drunk.

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Upon seeing Dolphus Raymond, Scout questions his peculiar actions by asking Jem, "Why’s he sittin’ with the colored folks?” (Lee #). Jem tries to explain by sharing some of his wisdom, “‘Always does. He likes ‘em better’n he likes us, I reckon. Lives by himself way down near the county

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George Washington Carver was an amazing man who deeply affected the world with his brilliance! He conducted biological experiments and got his Bachelors and Masters degrees in college. He also ran the agricultural department at African American Tuskegee Institute. He achieved world fame and was known well for his intelligence. During his life he invented hundreds of new uses for peanuts.

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His faith in the world around him, in the people he’s grown up around his entire life, has been completely and utterly shattered. He “[don’t] see how any jury could convict on what we heard” (pg. 230). He’s totally convinced that Tom Robinson is innocent, and, undoubtedly, he is. But what Jem doesn’t understand, despite his father’s efforts, is that innocence is not enough to keep Tom out of jail. The words of a white man, even a distrusted and disrespected man like Bob Ewell, will always trump those of a black man.

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Before meeting Mr. Dolphus Raymond, the kids thought he was just a drunk who lives with his black wife and mixed kids. When they eventually met him, they realized that he 's just a nice guy who wants to live his life in peace and, “If I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond 's in the clutches of whiskey—that 's why he won 't change his ways” (Lee 15). Scout then later understands that he drink coke out of a paper bag because that 's what people would expect from him rather than accept and he “... cant help himself, that 's why he lives the way he does” (Lee 227). Scout realizes that he 's happy living his life with his family and would rather not be bothered by the negativity the rest of the

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Throughout the whole trial there are multiple times when anyone who reads the novel knows that he is not getting a fair shake. The first time is when Atticus delivers his closing remarks and he says something that is very powerful and also very true about the case and Tom receiving an unfair trial, “To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white” (Lee 203). What Atticus explains is that no matter how plain it is to everyone that Tom is innocent and could not have commited the crime, it does not matter because one thing is certain, Tom is black. And the jury being white means he has no chance at winning, it’s truly sad, but during the time of the trial that 's just how society works.

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Introduction This paper highlights the story of a woman who was a Jehovah’s Witness. She was twenty-eight-year-old when she was pregnant and refused a blood transfusion, which could have potentially saved herself and her unborn baby. The woman needed medical treatment because she was diagnosed with leukemia. She refused a blood transfusion because of her religious beliefs, and thus, refusal of treatment led to her baby dying and she passed away from an ischemic stroke (Meddows, Johnston & Sun, 2015).

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