“Black Lives Matter!” Unless if you’re a infant or in a coma you’ve heard this saying a lot in recent events following police brutality. In the book we see many cases where people are talked down to, judge for skills they lack from being in different environments, and people feeling they deserve absolute respect for their seniority. While not in the form of police brutality Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A MockingBird demonstrates these types of hate and how people always treat new and/or abnormal groups in an inferior manner because of a minuscule or a immense difference. Although this book tries to show an balanced scale of good and evil, justice and fairness, the scale in real life is never balanced, and it tend to tilt towards the evil side.
Probably in every society there is conflict between young and old. Many pieces of literature show us this is the oldest type of conflict between groups. Such works as far back as the Homer's Iliad and similar writings in Roman times. One time when conflict of the young and old is experienced in To Kill A Mockingbird is on Scout’s first day at school. On Scout’s first day (Chapter 2, pgs 22-25) she has two confrontations …show more content…
The act of talking down to someone immediately shows them that you completely disrespect them and feel that they are inferior to you. This type of bullying is present in many scenes of To Kill A Mockingbird but one in particular is during the Tom Robinson trial. When Tom is on the stand and has to respond to Mr. Gilmer’s questions(Chapter 19,pg 263). Mr Gilmer talks down to him calling him boy over and over again. This action upsets even Dill someone with no connection to Tom but just overwhelmed with empathy for Tom, and his position he was in. Though it is a very cruel way of talking to Tom that Mr. Gilmer uses he could just be trying suade the jury to lessen their opinion of
Probably in every society there is conflict between young and old. Many pieces of literature show us this is the oldest type of conflict between groups. Such works as far back as the Homer's Iliad and similar writings in Roman times. One time when conflict of the young and old is experienced in To Kill A Mockingbird is on Scout’s first day at school. On Scout’s first day (Chapter 2, pgs 22-25) she has two confrontations …show more content…
The act of talking down to someone immediately shows them that you completely disrespect them and feel that they are inferior to you. This type of bullying is present in many scenes of To Kill A Mockingbird but one in particular is during the Tom Robinson trial. When Tom is on the stand and has to respond to Mr. Gilmer’s questions(Chapter 19,pg 263). Mr Gilmer talks down to him calling him boy over and over again. This action upsets even Dill someone with no connection to Tom but just overwhelmed with empathy for Tom, and his position he was in. Though it is a very cruel way of talking to Tom that Mr. Gilmer uses he could just be trying suade the jury to lessen their opinion of