Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, shows many examples about racism and life back in the day in Maycomb. It also how a girl named Scout and her brother, Jem, experience all these things. As the novel goes on, the racism that is demonstrated in To Kill a Mockingbird gets worse. Scout’s dad, Atticus, is defending a black man named Tom Robinson from going to prison and getting killed. Even though Atticus’s case is very reasonable and has reasonable evidence, he still loses the case. Scout gets taught very many different lessons from Atticus, her brother and Calpurnia. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, Jem and Dill experience various forms of racism, empathy, justice and judgement.
Black people are put in a lower position than white people and it shows alot.In this case, Mrs. Dubose is racist against black people by making it seem like they’re lower than white people are and is making fun of Atticus for helping Tom Robinson. “Your father’s no better …show more content…
GIlmer said “you felt sorry for her? you felt sorry for her?”(Lee 225)This is a form of racism since Mr. Gilmer is talking to Tom Robinson like he isn’t worth feeling sorry for someone and like he is lower than Mayella and that's because he’s black.In this case, in the news the author makes a generalization about black people from Tom Robinson “Typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw.”(Lee 275).This is racist because since Tom Robinson was black, the author of the newspaper made a very racist generalization by saying that it’s normal for black people have “to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first change he saw.”.In conclusion, the severity of racism is getting higher in Maycomb and Scout and Jem may pick up on
Black people are put in a lower position than white people and it shows alot.In this case, Mrs. Dubose is racist against black people by making it seem like they’re lower than white people are and is making fun of Atticus for helping Tom Robinson. “Your father’s no better …show more content…
GIlmer said “you felt sorry for her? you felt sorry for her?”(Lee 225)This is a form of racism since Mr. Gilmer is talking to Tom Robinson like he isn’t worth feeling sorry for someone and like he is lower than Mayella and that's because he’s black.In this case, in the news the author makes a generalization about black people from Tom Robinson “Typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw.”(Lee 275).This is racist because since Tom Robinson was black, the author of the newspaper made a very racist generalization by saying that it’s normal for black people have “to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first change he saw.”.In conclusion, the severity of racism is getting higher in Maycomb and Scout and Jem may pick up on