In 1931, in Scottsboro Alabama, nine African-American boys with the ages from 12 to 20 were detained and wrongly accused of both rape and assault of two white women. A lynch mob of almost hundreds of white people assembled in the perimeters of the jail, causing the National Guard to interfere. Over the next decade, the Scottsboro Boys case as it became notorious of, was a nationwide icon of legal injustice in the segregated South, with no fair trial, consisted of an all-white jury that led to the conviction all the suspects without any evidence or a proper defense. This case, later on, brought up the attention of the Communist Party, which helped in nationalizing it, running some sort of a movement that put the Southern criminal justice system
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Behaving like what their society, family, and surroundings, forced upon them they consider the blacks as somehow inferior in class. Scout discovers that class prejudice rules everything from the very beginning of the book over her conversations with her father, she understands that people like the Ewells are filthy and cheap and consequently worthy to be looked down upon. Correspondingly, she and her brother are constantly urged by their aunt Alexandria to remember that by saying: “you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations' gentle breeding and that you should try to live up to your name"(p.143) only and simply because scout wanted to befriend a Cunningham. Her aunt justified it as a wrong behaviour according to the difference in the social status. White people are given the ultimate power over every class, controlling everything from education to social life determining every little detail. On the other hand, black people have no chance of getting a proper education leaving them to face illiteracy; neither have they had the chance to find well-paid jobs, which only forced to take the manual, based ones. In the process of othering them, …show more content…
During the novel’s time, strict social limitations were forced upon women that solely make them appear as unequal to men. Scout’s character sways away from the customary gender roles because of her upbringing she refuses to fit in within the mold of a traditional southern woman. Scouts’ Aunt, Alexandra, emphasizes these conventions and prohibits Scout from challenging them. She even has a vision for the little girl in chapter nine as narrated by scout” I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born.
Behaving like what their society, family, and surroundings, forced upon them they consider the blacks as somehow inferior in class. Scout discovers that class prejudice rules everything from the very beginning of the book over her conversations with her father, she understands that people like the Ewells are filthy and cheap and consequently worthy to be looked down upon. Correspondingly, she and her brother are constantly urged by their aunt Alexandria to remember that by saying: “you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations' gentle breeding and that you should try to live up to your name"(p.143) only and simply because scout wanted to befriend a Cunningham. Her aunt justified it as a wrong behaviour according to the difference in the social status. White people are given the ultimate power over every class, controlling everything from education to social life determining every little detail. On the other hand, black people have no chance of getting a proper education leaving them to face illiteracy; neither have they had the chance to find well-paid jobs, which only forced to take the manual, based ones. In the process of othering them, …show more content…
During the novel’s time, strict social limitations were forced upon women that solely make them appear as unequal to men. Scout’s character sways away from the customary gender roles because of her upbringing she refuses to fit in within the mold of a traditional southern woman. Scouts’ Aunt, Alexandra, emphasizes these conventions and prohibits Scout from challenging them. She even has a vision for the little girl in chapter nine as narrated by scout” I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra's vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born.