Not Everything is Just Black and White
Rosa Parks was raised during a time when segregation was normal and cultural suppression of African Americans was a way of life. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks did something very simple that turned into something great. She refused to give up her seat on the bus riding home after work to a white man. Not to make a point or start a protest, because it had been a long day and she was tired. Her actions that day started a protest of the bus companies ' practices that would grow into a movement that changed not only Montgomery, Alabama but our nation. (Wilson,). Even though the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was before the time of Rosa Parks they still have many connections between them, the main connection to both Rosa Parks and the novel is the racism in both stories, like Calpurnia, Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s story and most importantly the Tom Robinson trial. Racism is the major theme throughout the novel. Racism is defined as “Discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is …show more content…
24) If you look at this situation in a different perspective it’s showing the racist nature of the prison guards. Tom Robinson was just another black man to them, in their eyes, a world with one less black man was a better world. A quote to support this is, "Depends on how you look at it," he said. "What was one Negro, more or less, among two hundred of 'em?”(Lee, Ch. 24) He wasn 't Tom to them, he was an escaping prisoner. The guards probably had no sympathy toward Tom Robinson, because he was black. Even though he was still black he shouldn 't have been treated so brutally and disrespected. If it was a white prisoner escaping I think they probably wouldn 't have shot him so many times.
Rosa Parks was raised during a time when segregation was normal and cultural suppression of African Americans was a way of life. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks did something very simple that turned into something great. She refused to give up her seat on the bus riding home after work to a white man. Not to make a point or start a protest, because it had been a long day and she was tired. Her actions that day started a protest of the bus companies ' practices that would grow into a movement that changed not only Montgomery, Alabama but our nation. (Wilson,). Even though the novel To Kill a Mockingbird was before the time of Rosa Parks they still have many connections between them, the main connection to both Rosa Parks and the novel is the racism in both stories, like Calpurnia, Mr. Dolphus Raymond’s story and most importantly the Tom Robinson trial. Racism is the major theme throughout the novel. Racism is defined as “Discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is …show more content…
24) If you look at this situation in a different perspective it’s showing the racist nature of the prison guards. Tom Robinson was just another black man to them, in their eyes, a world with one less black man was a better world. A quote to support this is, "Depends on how you look at it," he said. "What was one Negro, more or less, among two hundred of 'em?”(Lee, Ch. 24) He wasn 't Tom to them, he was an escaping prisoner. The guards probably had no sympathy toward Tom Robinson, because he was black. Even though he was still black he shouldn 't have been treated so brutally and disrespected. If it was a white prisoner escaping I think they probably wouldn 't have shot him so many times.