“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(90) Why would anyone want to kill something that makes beautiful music? Why would anybody want to kill anything that he or she didn’t intend to use? People do cruel deeds all of the time because of things such as religion and race. Racism in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird affects the events in the novel by pointing out how chaotic and rude people were in the 1930s. Mr. Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout Finch, was away on business on weekend. Calpurnia, the caretaker, invited Jem and Scout to go to church with her for the morning. Calpurnia, being a Negro, went to First Purchase African M.E. Church. The church was a gambling house for white men during the week. People figured that they didn’t need to build a new building for the gamblers; they could just take from the colored folks. The children agreed to go to church with Cal. AS they were walking to the front doors of First Purchase, Lula, a Negro woman, stopped them. She said, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here- they got their church, we got our’n.”(119)
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He was always wobbling around and,”…drinkin’ out of a sack.”(160) Mr. Raymond had many children. The only problem with them, according to Maycomb, was that they were mixed. Jem tried explaining it to Scout. “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.”(161) It was said that Dolphus drank…a lot. In reality, he was just pretending. He drank coke out of a sack so that people would think he was drunk. The only reason he did this was so folks wouldn’t get into his business about having mixed children and living with Negros. Dolphus just liked the colored people better. The white people of Maycomb had no right to judge him for his way of living. Racism always seemed to weasel its way into everyone’s
He was always wobbling around and,”…drinkin’ out of a sack.”(160) Mr. Raymond had many children. The only problem with them, according to Maycomb, was that they were mixed. Jem tried explaining it to Scout. “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.”(161) It was said that Dolphus drank…a lot. In reality, he was just pretending. He drank coke out of a sack so that people would think he was drunk. The only reason he did this was so folks wouldn’t get into his business about having mixed children and living with Negros. Dolphus just liked the colored people better. The white people of Maycomb had no right to judge him for his way of living. Racism always seemed to weasel its way into everyone’s