Examples Of Alienation In To Kill A Mockingbird

In How to Kill a Mockingbird there are many people being alienated for different reasons? For example in this book black people are disliked. In Maycomb, white people are grown up to despise black people. Tom Robinson is one of the many black people that are shunned against. Very few white people think everyone should be equal, but Atticus thinks differently. As Tom and Atticus fight in court to show people that just because you are black doesn’t mean you have to be the guilty one. Tom, a man, who tried to be someone’s friend, then gets accused of rape, and later on dies because the white man always wins. Mayella was a lonely white girl who had no friends. Her father, Mr. Ewell, was a drunk and usually left her there with her seven other siblings to do all the work. Mayella soon found out that Tom would help her do work around the house with no charges. Tom, feeling …show more content…
Ewell really did. Mr. Ewell beat Mayella for kissing Tom. Tom’s lawyer, Atticus, fights in court to show people that Mr. Ewell is the one that beat his daughter. Everyone knows who is guilty, but no one wants the white man to be put in jail. If a white man and black man are in court together, the white man is going to win. After everyone knows that Tom is clearly the innocent one, the jury still says he is guilty. Tom could not win because of his skin color. Because of his race people did not stand up for what was right. Tom is sent to prison and is later on killed. He is not killed because he “raped” Mayella. He is shot because he tried to run away from the prison. After everything he dies because of something he did not do. An innocent man that was only trying to help out a girl he felt bad for is now dead. White people could not give up their values to do the right thing. People were too scared to stand up and put the white man in jail because they didn’t want other people to think badly of them. Or to show that black people are just as equal as