To Kill A Mockingbird Tradition Analysis

When I first read the title To Kill a Mockingbird, I was instantly intrigued. At first I wondered how a novel about a bird could be so interesting. Once I researched the mockingbird and discovered it repeatedly mimicked songs of other birds and sounds of insects, I thought To Kill a Mockingbird could be about ending a tradition or belief about a particular thing. The idea of ending a tradition or belief made sense to me given that the novel was set in the Deep South and the South often has deep rooted traditions and beliefs that go back many generations. After reading what the novel is about it turns out the novel is partially about the beliefs the adults have about race and class, often taught or passed down from someone above them. Race and class played a large role in the way people thought back in the early to mid-1900s. It was also common for black families to be looked down on because they were of a lower class than white families. So I’m sure it caused much …show more content…
As the story progresses I expect to learn more about the town and how the beliefs of the members of the town. Because most southerners discriminate against blacks I would say the black man did not allegedly rape the white woman. The white woman probably set up the black man to make it look like he raped her to get back at him for not doing something for her or for doing something that was insignificantly wrong. As a result, I would assume the black man was convicted of raping the white woman because a jury was more likely to be in favor of a white person’s word rather than a black person’s word. After all, in that day and time people believed African Americans told lies and were not to be trusted. So it would make sense that the black man would deny raping the white woman because he would be sentenced to many years in jail or to