Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a town called Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. A young girl narrates her perspective on aspects such as racial issues, social class and death. Prior to this passage, Scout along with her brother Jem and good friend Dill were viewing the trial of Tom Robinson, a man who was falsely accused of raping a nineteen yearly girl. Dill starts to cry in the middle of court because of the cruel way the prosecutor was treating Tom Robinson. Scout escorts Dill our of the courtroom and they encounter a man named Dolphus Raymond. This passage has a great significance to the novel as a whole as it shows the abundance of prejudice that takes place in Maycomb. Dolphus Raymond’s story serves as another example showing how Maycomb is not accepting of those who are different. The passage on Dolphus Raymond
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As the novel progresses, readers find out that Dolphus Raymond has more to him then just being an alcoholic. Dolphus Raymond is actually a man who disregards the racial barriers not because he is “in the clutches of whiskey,” but because he doesn’t believe in the segregation. He confesses to the children that he revealed his secret by saying, “Because you're children and you can understand it.” By expressing this Dolphus shows that he thinks the children can know because they are not extremely deep into the racist lifestyle. Throughout the passage Dolphus Raymond is characterized as a person that promotes equality. In the excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond tells Dill to, “…cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.” In these lines, Dolphus Raymond is depicted as one who stands for civil rights. In a way this is irony because a person who is thought as a “sinful” alcoholic in Scout’s society is actually a role model in
As the novel progresses, readers find out that Dolphus Raymond has more to him then just being an alcoholic. Dolphus Raymond is actually a man who disregards the racial barriers not because he is “in the clutches of whiskey,” but because he doesn’t believe in the segregation. He confesses to the children that he revealed his secret by saying, “Because you're children and you can understand it.” By expressing this Dolphus shows that he thinks the children can know because they are not extremely deep into the racist lifestyle. Throughout the passage Dolphus Raymond is characterized as a person that promotes equality. In the excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond tells Dill to, “…cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.” In these lines, Dolphus Raymond is depicted as one who stands for civil rights. In a way this is irony because a person who is thought as a “sinful” alcoholic in Scout’s society is actually a role model in