In the novel “To kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee one of the main characters has trouble stopping the racism in the Maycomb county. Thinking that people should be treated differently because of their race or gender is wrong and Atticus Finch - the hero of this novel - does his best to combat such racist attitudes. He takes up a challenging case, and the whole town seems to be affected. Also, it’s not just him that has to cope with the society’s disapproval but his children Scout and Jem too, who are young and still learning what courage, honour and integrity mean. Atticus tries his best to show to his children that prejudice is not right.
The story is set in the Southern United States in 1930s which is told through the eyes of Scout Finch …show more content…
Bob Ewell uses the money they receive for alcohol which makes him more selfish and evil. Bob hates Atticus for trying to find ways of making them guilty other than Tom.
Although the reader is aware that the outcome of the trials basically predetermined , the author makes it clear that Tom though demonstrably innocent of the offence with which he has been charged, makes one crucial error. And that error is that he put himself higher in class by saying:
“‘Yes suh. I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em -’ The witness realized his mistake and shifted uncomfortably in the chair. But the damage was done… Mr Gilmor paused a long time to let it sink in.”
Tom might not had a good chance of walking out of there alive but there was something, a spark was still there… until he blew it. Now, that he did the one sin that will be unforgivable by the society, by putting himself in a higher rank by saying that which was forbidden at the time, seems like he has signed a death wish. He only wanted to be honest but he could have kept it to …show more content…
It makes it the situation more interesting because Scout is the narrator in the novel and Dill was her friend and using a language only a child would use and this description is so perfect because the reader can easily visualise that action of Helen falling to the ground. It shows that like ‘you’d step on an ant’ means that we are giants to the ant and that we kill them without knowing about it cause they are tiny, so the Harper Lee meant that Helen is kind of dad by finding out that she lost her husband, the one person that could have helped to hold the family, the one that she loved and the society ruined her life with prejudice without
The story is set in the Southern United States in 1930s which is told through the eyes of Scout Finch …show more content…
Bob Ewell uses the money they receive for alcohol which makes him more selfish and evil. Bob hates Atticus for trying to find ways of making them guilty other than Tom.
Although the reader is aware that the outcome of the trials basically predetermined , the author makes it clear that Tom though demonstrably innocent of the offence with which he has been charged, makes one crucial error. And that error is that he put himself higher in class by saying:
“‘Yes suh. I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more’n the rest of ‘em -’ The witness realized his mistake and shifted uncomfortably in the chair. But the damage was done… Mr Gilmor paused a long time to let it sink in.”
Tom might not had a good chance of walking out of there alive but there was something, a spark was still there… until he blew it. Now, that he did the one sin that will be unforgivable by the society, by putting himself in a higher rank by saying that which was forbidden at the time, seems like he has signed a death wish. He only wanted to be honest but he could have kept it to …show more content…
It makes it the situation more interesting because Scout is the narrator in the novel and Dill was her friend and using a language only a child would use and this description is so perfect because the reader can easily visualise that action of Helen falling to the ground. It shows that like ‘you’d step on an ant’ means that we are giants to the ant and that we kill them without knowing about it cause they are tiny, so the Harper Lee meant that Helen is kind of dad by finding out that she lost her husband, the one person that could have helped to hold the family, the one that she loved and the society ruined her life with prejudice without