To Kill A Mockingbird Racism Analysis

Racism is expressing discrimination and intolerance towards people of other races. This intense feeling of disregard towards humans of other races has surfaced as a prevalent issue for decades. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, an innocent colored man is convicted of rape and sentenced to death due to injustice and racism taking over the decisions of the jury. Often, when a person displays prejudice towards certain races than compared to others, he or she will make decisions that favor the people whom they see as worthy of their respect, and to those whom they deem unworthy of their regard he or she will completely ignore, or worse, carry out a form of sabotage towards them. In the novel, injustice and racism reigns in the county of Maycomb, corrupting the choices and thoughts of white people especially towards their darker skinned neighbors. Some incidents of racial discrimination in the novel …show more content…
A good representation of this perspective is shown in To Kill a Mockingbird, when Bob Ewell starts to harass Helen, the widow of Tom Robinson. Mister Ewell had held a constant grudge against Tom ever since the rape case, because he felt that although Tom was convicted, people were starting to look down on Mister Ewell himself. Thus, Mister Ewell vented his frustration on the people he held a grudge against. One of them especially, was Helen Robinson, widow of the late Tom Robinson. Just because she was related to Tom, Mister Ewell vented his anger on her by constantly harassing her and silently cursing at her. As Mister Link Deas said: “You don’t have to touch her, all you have to do is make her afraid…” (249) This example shows us that racism can be displayed when a person lets something like frustration take over his or her temper and