To Kill a Mockingbird Essay
Racism is something that can destroy a community in one big hit like an illness in a highly populated area, but it can also help someone grow. This is what is seen throughout Harper Lee’s
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. In this story Harper Lee uses many literary elements to lay out the text to show growth over time in the story using different characters such as Jem Atticus and Scout and many others to not only show growth but to show the power of racism and its effects upon a small community. The trial of a black man named Tom Robinson who is unequally treated and frowned upon for something he did not do, this effects many characters in many different ways is what is going to be seen throughout this essay.
Harper Lee uses the conflict of the Tom Robinson trial to develop the theme of racism being an all around disease to anyone around or involved in it. Jem Finch a young boy living in maycomb county is affected by the trial of a black man named Tom Robinson after the trial Jem is in the thought of “who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson”(215). Jem
Shows that he thinks Tom Robinson is mistreated and that he would think differently about the place he was born a place able to be struck upon by racism. Harper Lee uses this conflict of the trial to …show more content…
This is showing how Jem feels about maycomb and its people after the Tom Robinson trial. This quote shows Jem is growing up in the sense of his thoughts about the town he grew up in, while Jem is coming of age he learns from Mrs.Maudie “judge Taylor might have had his reasons for naming him”(215). This is Jem being explained how many people did try to help Tom Robinson like Atticus being appointed to him for a reason. This shows how Jem is learning that what he was thinking wasn't right and that he should aware of what was actually
Racism is something that can destroy a community in one big hit like an illness in a highly populated area, but it can also help someone grow. This is what is seen throughout Harper Lee’s
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. In this story Harper Lee uses many literary elements to lay out the text to show growth over time in the story using different characters such as Jem Atticus and Scout and many others to not only show growth but to show the power of racism and its effects upon a small community. The trial of a black man named Tom Robinson who is unequally treated and frowned upon for something he did not do, this effects many characters in many different ways is what is going to be seen throughout this essay.
Harper Lee uses the conflict of the Tom Robinson trial to develop the theme of racism being an all around disease to anyone around or involved in it. Jem Finch a young boy living in maycomb county is affected by the trial of a black man named Tom Robinson after the trial Jem is in the thought of “who in this town did one thing to help Tom Robinson”(215). Jem
Shows that he thinks Tom Robinson is mistreated and that he would think differently about the place he was born a place able to be struck upon by racism. Harper Lee uses this conflict of the trial to …show more content…
This is showing how Jem feels about maycomb and its people after the Tom Robinson trial. This quote shows Jem is growing up in the sense of his thoughts about the town he grew up in, while Jem is coming of age he learns from Mrs.Maudie “judge Taylor might have had his reasons for naming him”(215). This is Jem being explained how many people did try to help Tom Robinson like Atticus being appointed to him for a reason. This shows how Jem is learning that what he was thinking wasn't right and that he should aware of what was actually