To Kill a MockingBird is one of the best novels ever written, but why? To Kill a Mockingbird ,a novel by Harper Lee, is one of the most well known books in the world. It set in a small southern town in Alabama during the Great Depression. It shows how bad of a problem racism was during that time. Narrated by a little girl name Scout, from her point of view, years after the story actually happened. The story has a poor yet cruel white family, a black man accused of rapeing a young white women, a creepy neighbor, and a new friend who comes every year from Mississippi. Within all of the events that the story tells, three important themes are shown courage, hidden identities and Prejudice
The first main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is Courage. …show more content…
Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird Hidden Identities of characters are shown multiple times. Hidden Identities are important in the book because they show Scout that she doesn't know everybody like she thinks she does. Within the book multiple people show hidden Identities that Scout realized as the events happened. Some people that showed hidden identities in the book are Atticus, Boo/Arthur Radley, Ms Dubose, Bob Ewell, and Clapernia. Calpurnia's hidden identity is when she acts differently at her church, “Cal,” I asked, “why do you talk nigger- talk to the—to your folks when you know it’s not right?”“Well, in the first place I’m black—”“That doesn’t mean you hafta talk that way when you know better,” said Jem.Calpurnia tilted her hat and scratched her head, then pressed her hat down carefully over her ears. “It’s right hard to say,” she said. “Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks’ talk at home it’d be out of place, wouldn’t it? Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin‘ on airs to beat Moses.”“But Cal, you know better,” I said. “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place,folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin‘¨(Lee 167) This hidden identity is important in the book because it teaches black customs to Jem and Scout. Jem and Scout don't know that Calpurnia talks differently our side of their home, with …show more content…
During the Great Depression prejudice and racism was a very big problem. White people were considered better than black people no matter the circumstance. Harper Lee shows this in the book when a black man is sent to court against a white man for supposedly raping his daughter. The black man, Tom Robinson, and his lawyer, Atticus Finch, both know that there chances of winning the case are very slim because of the society they live in. At the end of the case when the jurys comes in they all fine Tom Guilty. ¨ A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson. The foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr. Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge... I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty... guilty... guilty...guilty...” “How could they do it, how could
The first main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is Courage. …show more content…
Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird Hidden Identities of characters are shown multiple times. Hidden Identities are important in the book because they show Scout that she doesn't know everybody like she thinks she does. Within the book multiple people show hidden Identities that Scout realized as the events happened. Some people that showed hidden identities in the book are Atticus, Boo/Arthur Radley, Ms Dubose, Bob Ewell, and Clapernia. Calpurnia's hidden identity is when she acts differently at her church, “Cal,” I asked, “why do you talk nigger- talk to the—to your folks when you know it’s not right?”“Well, in the first place I’m black—”“That doesn’t mean you hafta talk that way when you know better,” said Jem.Calpurnia tilted her hat and scratched her head, then pressed her hat down carefully over her ears. “It’s right hard to say,” she said. “Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks’ talk at home it’d be out of place, wouldn’t it? Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin‘ on airs to beat Moses.”“But Cal, you know better,” I said. “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike—in the second place,folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin‘¨(Lee 167) This hidden identity is important in the book because it teaches black customs to Jem and Scout. Jem and Scout don't know that Calpurnia talks differently our side of their home, with …show more content…
During the Great Depression prejudice and racism was a very big problem. White people were considered better than black people no matter the circumstance. Harper Lee shows this in the book when a black man is sent to court against a white man for supposedly raping his daughter. The black man, Tom Robinson, and his lawyer, Atticus Finch, both know that there chances of winning the case are very slim because of the society they live in. At the end of the case when the jurys comes in they all fine Tom Guilty. ¨ A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson. The foreman handed a piece of paper to Mr. Tate who handed it to the clerk who handed it to the judge... I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty... guilty... guilty...guilty...” “How could they do it, how could