The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes us back to a time in America where race relations were at their absolute worst. These were some of the most difficult years for the United States of America, especially in the southern states. Discrimination, segregation and racism were extremely brutal and harsh towards coming from Caucasians toward the African-American race.
The main focus of this book was to show how, because of racism, an innocent man was accused of a crime that he did not commit simply because he was African-American. Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused raping a young white woman. However, the true story was that a young lady by the name of Mayella Ewelle asked him to help her with some work at her home and then asked Tom for a kiss. Tom refused and became angry that she would say such a thing and told her that if she said anything like that again he would kill her. Even though Tom refused, Mayella’s father, Bob, overheard the exchange and became enraged. Bob beat his daughter for the question that he overheard and then devised a plan to punish Tom even worse because of what he said to Mayella. This is when Bob created the lie
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I recommend this to not only young African-Americans but people of all races. The inequality and discrimination was real and running ramped.
What I appreciated most about the novel is that it gives a realistic account from a young person’s perspective. The account is given by Scout, the daughter of the lawyer who represented Tom Robinson, Mr. Attucs. This account is so extremely important because it sheds light on the language and format in which the novel was written.
Scout and her family suffered injustice as well because her father defended a Black man. Bob himself even vowed that he would kill the lawyer who defended him if it was the “last thing he did”. However, that backfired terribly on