TKAM Synthesis Essay In Harper lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout grown up in the little town of maycomb deep in the south with the thoughts and actions of racist men and women all around them. Throughout the story we see through scout's eyes the injustice toward blacks and see how it affects her views on the people all around her.We see how her outlook changes on the people closest to her and how she grows from this reality. The theme of TKAM is that racism is never going to end in a society where people will not acknowledge it exists. In today's society racism is strong despised and hated,however, it exists.It’s a lot less obvious than it was in the in the 30s but it still exists in smaller forms such as racial profiling and
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Time and time again humanity has faced problems and ignored them.Racism exists a in most places and isn't going to go away anytime soon.”School segregation, like its big brother, institutional racism, never went away --we just pretended it did”(source 3)In TKAM scout goes to a school where she is constantly being told her father is a,”nigger lover” and doesn't know why kids keep calling her father words she doesn't understand but knows there not nice. Also in the book there isn't one mention of a colored folk at her school.The same kids who go to scouts school are growing up and hearing these words and repeating them because in their society it's ok and no one wants to acknowledge that fact that racism still …show more content…
Peter norman stood up for human rights during the 1968 olympic games and stood with 2 black men and through wearing a badge showed his hate of racial injustice.”There was a social injustice that i couldn't do anything about from where i was but i certainly hated it”(source 4).After returning home he wasn't met with open arms but the wrath of mob mentality and how men influenced other men like peter to alienate him and turn him into a social outcast.These two men fought against racism and were heard but not listened to because men couldn't face the fact that society was so strongly tied with racism and that they had caused so much pain and suffering to toward colored men.
Even in modern society racism still exists and will probably never go away until people acknowledge that it still lingers in the depths of our lives. Many black people still feel hated because of their skin.”It dooms our children to repeat battles that their forbears so courageously” fought and won”(source 2).Through
Time and time again humanity has faced problems and ignored them.Racism exists a in most places and isn't going to go away anytime soon.”School segregation, like its big brother, institutional racism, never went away --we just pretended it did”(source 3)In TKAM scout goes to a school where she is constantly being told her father is a,”nigger lover” and doesn't know why kids keep calling her father words she doesn't understand but knows there not nice. Also in the book there isn't one mention of a colored folk at her school.The same kids who go to scouts school are growing up and hearing these words and repeating them because in their society it's ok and no one wants to acknowledge that fact that racism still …show more content…
Peter norman stood up for human rights during the 1968 olympic games and stood with 2 black men and through wearing a badge showed his hate of racial injustice.”There was a social injustice that i couldn't do anything about from where i was but i certainly hated it”(source 4).After returning home he wasn't met with open arms but the wrath of mob mentality and how men influenced other men like peter to alienate him and turn him into a social outcast.These two men fought against racism and were heard but not listened to because men couldn't face the fact that society was so strongly tied with racism and that they had caused so much pain and suffering to toward colored men.
Even in modern society racism still exists and will probably never go away until people acknowledge that it still lingers in the depths of our lives. Many black people still feel hated because of their skin.”It dooms our children to repeat battles that their forbears so courageously” fought and won”(source 2).Through