Essay On Segregation In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. First, Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. When Scout asks Jem what a mixed child is and Jem responds it's the children who are half black and half white. “Jem I asked, “what’s a mixed child ?” “Half White, half colored. “They don't belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have em because because their half white; white folks won't have em because they're colored, so they're just in betweens, don't belong anywhere. Specifically, when Jem is talking about Dolphus Raymond and mentions the word mixed children and in turn Scout asks Jem what a mixed child is and that starts the whole conversation. Furthermore,Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. Second, Segregation is believed to be an effective way of living. During the rape trial of Tom Robinson, as the people file into the courtroom the seating arrangement is the white people on one side of the courtroom and the African Americans sit on the other side. “ Four negroes rise and gave us their front row seats. The Colored Balcony ran along the three walls like a second story veranda.” As a result of the trial the white …show more content…
While most white people live in nice houses in the town the African American People live in small shacks next to the dump. When Atticus goes to Tom Robinson's house for the final time to deliver the horrible news to Helen Robinson. “ they turned off the highway, rode slowly by the dump and past the Ewell residence down the narrow lane to the Negroes cabin. When Atticus is driving to the robinson residence the quote describes it as past the dump into the negroe residence, implying that the house was off the path of the normal town, the white people living in the nice houses in the center of town with the exception of the Ewells, while the African American people live in small cabins next to the