Maycomb County was just a small, quiet town in southern Alabama where mostly everyone knew each other. To Kill A Mockingbird, is a novel told by Scout. Scout and her brother Jem face some difficulties when their father, Atticus defends Tom Robinson a black man. Jem, Scout, and Dill try to find ways to get Arthur (Boo) Radley to come out. The whole novel explains the difficulties the face and it soon leads to how Jem got his arm broken. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses racism to show how it can lead to inequality, hypocrisy, prejudice and it can make things unfair towards others.
Inequality can be seen as you read through the novel. For example, “She went up to the front steps and hanged on the door…’She’s supposed to go around in back.’” (124). Since Calpurnia was African-American they weren’t allowed to go up the front steps they were supposed to go around back. If you were African-American you were thought to be a minority and there were some rules that you had to follow. Another example is, “‘Half …show more content…
An example of prejudice is “‘this case should have never come to trial.’...’has not produced one iota of medical evidence...It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence...has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.’” (271). They accused Tom of rape with very minimal/no evidence. Even though they know that Atticus is right and that what they’re doing is wrong, no one speaks up. An example of judgement that was said is, “‘you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption --the evil assumption-- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women.’” (273). They judge Negroes based off of their appearance and what they have heard about them. They don’t get the time to know them and just treat them badly. Throughout the novel you can see how prejudiced and judgemental some people
Inequality can be seen as you read through the novel. For example, “She went up to the front steps and hanged on the door…’She’s supposed to go around in back.’” (124). Since Calpurnia was African-American they weren’t allowed to go up the front steps they were supposed to go around back. If you were African-American you were thought to be a minority and there were some rules that you had to follow. Another example is, “‘Half …show more content…
An example of prejudice is “‘this case should have never come to trial.’...’has not produced one iota of medical evidence...It has relied instead upon the testimony of two witnesses whose evidence...has been flatly contradicted by the defendant.’” (271). They accused Tom of rape with very minimal/no evidence. Even though they know that Atticus is right and that what they’re doing is wrong, no one speaks up. An example of judgement that was said is, “‘you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption --the evil assumption-- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women.’” (273). They judge Negroes based off of their appearance and what they have heard about them. They don’t get the time to know them and just treat them badly. Throughout the novel you can see how prejudiced and judgemental some people