“To Kill a Mockingbird” is an award-winning book about outcasts, judgement, and racial segregation in the small community of Maycomb County. The book introduces a young girl, Scout who grows up and starts to learn how the world is working in her small community. The book begins right after the end of certain laws keeping men and women of color segregated from all of the white men and women. Movie theaters, restaurants, communities, and even schools were segregated during this time. This was all because of a set of rules known as the Jim Crow laws.
In the book we hear about the trials of a man named Tom Robinson and a girl named Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping Mayella or as the book says “taken advantage of."(Lee 18, 185) Throughout this chapter we see how one of the black men in their community is treated even after the ending of the Jim Crow laws. During the trial, Tom pleads not guilty to his accusations (Lee 20, 198) but is still punished even without committing a crime. While reading this chapter it is apparent of the effects of racism on this community. We can also tell the effects of the Jim Crow laws in the court room. Most of Tom’s community is there to support him, but they are given a specified area of the courtroom to sit, away …show more content…
Ewell was so mad about Atticus representing Tom that he even went so far to try to hurt and even kill Jem and Scout (Lee 29, 267). He knew that Atticus’ acts of kindness were helping reach the end of segregation that he worked himself up, got drunk, went out and tried to hurt his kids, cowardly. The unfortunate part is, that’s how the world worked back then and people who were different than the whites were treated differently almost like they were some kind of “evil”, even though this takes place years after the abolition of these laws. So many black men and women were affected by these laws. It’s quite unfortunate that even after the laws being removed people still considered everyone
In the book we hear about the trials of a man named Tom Robinson and a girl named Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping Mayella or as the book says “taken advantage of."(Lee 18, 185) Throughout this chapter we see how one of the black men in their community is treated even after the ending of the Jim Crow laws. During the trial, Tom pleads not guilty to his accusations (Lee 20, 198) but is still punished even without committing a crime. While reading this chapter it is apparent of the effects of racism on this community. We can also tell the effects of the Jim Crow laws in the court room. Most of Tom’s community is there to support him, but they are given a specified area of the courtroom to sit, away …show more content…
Ewell was so mad about Atticus representing Tom that he even went so far to try to hurt and even kill Jem and Scout (Lee 29, 267). He knew that Atticus’ acts of kindness were helping reach the end of segregation that he worked himself up, got drunk, went out and tried to hurt his kids, cowardly. The unfortunate part is, that’s how the world worked back then and people who were different than the whites were treated differently almost like they were some kind of “evil”, even though this takes place years after the abolition of these laws. So many black men and women were affected by these laws. It’s quite unfortunate that even after the laws being removed people still considered everyone