The Best Gossiper In To Kill A Mockingbird

Improved Essays
Awards
Towns best gossiper! Go’s to Miss Stephanie Crawford. Miss any current events just ask her and she can fill you in. Miss Stephanie Crawford is always at the latest events. She was at the trial, knows about what Mr. Ewell did to Atticus. She can pursue any subject and talk forever. She can make new news trial very fast. Her information most of the time is correct. At any meeting discussing anything important or not important she will be there. If you ever need an opinion on something she will have one. Miss Stephanie Crawford is the best gossiper.
The Best Shot award goes to Atticus Finch. Even with a bad left eye, he never misses. The most recent event was when Tim Johnson went rabid. He shot him with one bullet without hesitation even
…show more content…
I would like to change that by allowing different races to be on the jury. This will help so it is not biased. If any of you end up in court and want to change. At least you have the choice to change. One example is the Tom Robison case. As you may of figured out during the Trial there was no way Tom could have done it, but he was still found guilty because he was different. Let’s make a goal to always have justice in Maycomb. The next thing I would like to disuses is making everyone equal. I know this task will take a lot of time, but I think it will help Maycomb in the long run. If we were all equal we could share our opinions and build new relations. If all the whites and blacks put their minds to it, we could accomplish new things. What really makes people so different? The trial had equality, it would have been a comer trial and now one would have been hurt or killed afterwards. If we had equally the trial might not even have occurred because people would care for …show more content…
Racism is the belief that characteristics can cause people to be inferior or superior to other races. In the book, it shows this mainly when a lawyer named Atticus defends a black man. “Mrs. Dubose would hound Jem for a while on her favorite subjects. Our fathers’ nigger loving propensities.”(108) This shows that people do not accept African Americans and even in the world today there is a lot of racism against African Americans. An example, of this in our world is when “an African American man was tased for 20 seconds even though he had no aggressive movements and was unarmed.”(tcanes) This proves that even if they do nothing wrong the way someone looks is more important to society. Even African Americans are racist toward white people. In the book when Calprana took them to church. “Lula stopped, but she said “ya ain’t got no business bringing white children here… they got their church”. (114) being unfair happens to different kinds of people no matter who you are. It has been happening in books and in the real world for

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Tom Robinson is falsely accused of rape and Atticus defends him in court no matter what anybody in Maycomb thought about it. Atticus knows he has no chance with winning the case, but to him trying is all that matters. For example, Most citizens of Maycomb consider Atticus a “Nigger-lover” for it and they refuse to agree that he should defend Tom but of course this doesn't stop him.…

    • 810 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In today's world racism is not as common as it was in the 1900's. Racism has been a problem in the United States of America for a long time, and going back on time the African Americans were treated horribly. Elizabeth Eckford was an African-American girl who attended a High School with white people only. She was cursed and hit by many people but she didn’t stop fighting for her rights.…

    • 528 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Our system is very unfair, and even though there has been a lot of improvement over the years, there is still work to be done, because not everyone is treated equally by the law. It is time for our justice system to…

    • 717 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    To Kill a Mockingbird and Night are two beautiful, classic and brilliantly written novels that address the multiple forms and dynamics of social issues within society. Both novels are told in the perspectives is of young children, who are quickly exposed to the harsh realities and evils of the world. Night, by Elie Wiesel follows the horrific events and experiences of a young, Jewish Elie in nineteen forties Europe; as he attempts to survive the harsh environment of the concentration camps spawned during World War II. Meanwhile, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, tells the stories of a six-year-old Scout Finch, who grows up trying to make sense of and becoming exposed to the prejudicial culture of nineteen thirties Maycomb, Alabama. Although…

    • 1208 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Racism In Tkam

    • 1053 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Racism is unfair and everyone should have equal rights in court, in personal choices, and in society. In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus supports an African American man, which is very rare in the society because most white people do not support black people, and they think that they are better than black people. Everybody in Maycomb thought that he was wrong and a disgrace to the family. White people never lose to black people. Even though Atticus knew that a black man would never win over a white, he gave it a shot and tried his best to support Tom Robinson.…

    • 1053 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why do I say unfairly you ask? Well, because this is a person of color, they purposely pick an all-white jury. My example has to do with the Electoral College because the simple fact, just like the all-white jury, the federal system basically doesn't care about our opinion. They just want us to feel like we’re doing something by letting us vote, when in reality our votes don't matter. The Electoral College doesn’t give the American people a voice at all, it shows how the federal system can still just walk over us.…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ”’(Lee 110) Atticus became a victim of racism. Because Atticus was defending a black man, his own family discriminated him, saying he tarnished their family name, the reason being that, although Atticus was not black, he was a social taboo. He associated himself with a black person which was a horrible thing to do during the time, because of racist and prejudice assumptions about black people. This is further evident when Jem and Mrs. Dubose had a conflict between them, as Scout describes ’Jem said softly “She [Mrs. Dubose] said you [Atticus] lawed for niggers and trash.”’…

    • 1016 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Atticus believes racism is ignorant and hateful. This is shown during Tom Robinson’s trial when Atticus, while addressing the jury, criticizes Bob and Mayella Ewell for, “the assumption - the evil assumption - that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of [the Ewell’s] caliber.” (Lee 204) Atticus associates racial prejudice with wickedness and stupidity. To Atticus, Bob Ewell’s racial prejudice, as well as racism in general, is immoral and ignorant.…

    • 1318 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Another way the system is just and fair is how it is not racist against others. Back before the civil rights movement there was racism on blacks. There was also racism on women and other minorities. That has changed over the years. There are still times where you will come across one person in the criminal justice system that is a racist.…

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, there are many different themes depicted such as hypocrisy, prejudice, courage, coming of age/loss of innocence, justice, femininity, but racism is illustrated more heavily. Living in maycomb, racism is allowed; if you were not racist towards the blacks then you would be criticized by being called names such as “nigger-lover”. Atticus ignored the rest of the people in Maycomb and went out of his way to support a black man known as Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape. Racism is the key theme in the novel.…

    • 123 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Aunt Alexandra, who stays with the Finch Family for the betterment of Scout, infuriates Scout because Scout’s pants are symbolic of her independent personality. Besides her boyishness, Scout is extremely intelligent. For instance, she reads at an advanced level at home with the help of Atticus, which is disallowed once discovered by Ms. Caroline. However, she has an apparent lack of empathy when she fails to understand the reason for Walter Cunningham’s boorishness at the dining table when she invites him for lunch. She rudely says to Calpurnia, “He would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the Sam Hill he was doing.”…

    • 1650 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    (271), and ““The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.”” (271). In other words, the court members, and audience vote Tom as guilty, because he is black, and in Maycomb there is no way he will get a fair trial. Since the town is racist, even if Tom is innocent, he was sent to prison, because the jury is still stuck in that mindset. Not to mention, when Tom was in prison, he tried to escape, but the police shot him many times, and killed him. When Atticus came to tell everyone what happened, he said, “They fired a few shots in the air, then to kill ...…

    • 1192 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Racism is the prejudice against people regarding the country they came from, the colour of their skin, and the language they speak. Racism is a theme that is seen all over the world and also plays a big part in our modern history. In the novel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘Remember The Titans’, the racism prevalently between black and white Americans is dealt with in a numerous amount of ways. The novel is not a true story but is based on life at the time whereas the film is based on real events that happened. Throughout both the film and the novel there were many similarities with how racism was dealt with including the two female narrators and the two protagonists that did not believe in prejudice against race.…

    • 1174 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Comparative essay The main idea of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is that picking on people who are helpless and have not done anything wrong or caused harm is a terrible thing. Whereas The Help directed by Tate Taylor is about racial prejudice and the hate directed toward blacks in respect to their race. Each story has a distinctive storyline but both share similar features and themes. For example both stories are set in the South during times of segregation.…

    • 1285 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Racism, the belief that one race possesses inherent traits that make that particular race superior to other races. In 1900s black people were treated cruelly, and even got killed because of racism. They were considered inferior to the white race. People used to judge each other based on their skin color, and race. The society used to turn a blind eye to the racial problems.…

    • 766 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays