Imagine a world where everyone with blue eyes got to give orders to everyone with brown eyes. If you're born with blue eyes, you get the good jobs, the good schools, the good houses, and all the fair trials you could want. If you have brown eyes, too bad. It's gruesome labor, mediocre education, and a house by the dump. This situation is fueled by racism and discrimination. Racism is one of the main themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson, the black man that is accused of rapeing Mayella Ewell, and the white man defending him in court, Atticus Finch, is faced with racism and the disapproving glances of the town of Maycomb. Even though racism is presented in fictional writings, this doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen in real life. All
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An example of this is when, The jury at Tom Robinson's trial shows racism because all the evidence indicates that Tom is innocent but all the jury members plead him as guilty. The jury at Tom Robinson’s trial is pressured by the white community of Maycomb to say Tom is guilty, even though everyone in the courtroom, including the jury, knows that Tom is clearly not. This shows racism at its finest. As Scout watched the trial from afar, she described the jury as they came from discussing if Tom was guilty or not, “ A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.” (Lee,211). Every jury member knew that Tom was not guilty, they just didn’t want to upset the white community of Maycomb and admit that a black man was right. The jury and the people of Maycomb showed racism to Tom Robinson and the black community by lying and twisting the truth.
Racism is strongly represented throughout the fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Even though this book is fictional, the problems of racism that are represented in the novel happen in real life too. Showing racism in physical and verbal ways is common in the modern world today and past events in
An example of this is when, The jury at Tom Robinson's trial shows racism because all the evidence indicates that Tom is innocent but all the jury members plead him as guilty. The jury at Tom Robinson’s trial is pressured by the white community of Maycomb to say Tom is guilty, even though everyone in the courtroom, including the jury, knows that Tom is clearly not. This shows racism at its finest. As Scout watched the trial from afar, she described the jury as they came from discussing if Tom was guilty or not, “ A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.” (Lee,211). Every jury member knew that Tom was not guilty, they just didn’t want to upset the white community of Maycomb and admit that a black man was right. The jury and the people of Maycomb showed racism to Tom Robinson and the black community by lying and twisting the truth.
Racism is strongly represented throughout the fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Even though this book is fictional, the problems of racism that are represented in the novel happen in real life too. Showing racism in physical and verbal ways is common in the modern world today and past events in