What Is Real Life Intolerance In To Kill A Mockingbird

The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is considered to be one of the best if not, the best novel she has ever written in her career. It narrates the events that happened near the author’s hometown, Alabama, in 1936 when she was just 10 years old. The story evolves on the wrongful accusation of Tom Robinson, a black man raping a young white woman, Mayella Ewell. It depicts the serious issues of injustice, prejudices and racial inequality. It showed how the whites harassed the blacks as well as the family of the lawyer, Mr. Atticus Finch, who is defending Tom Robinson. “Your fathers no better than the ****** and trash he works for!,” page 110, as said by Mrs. Dubose towards Jem and Scout Finch. Real-life intolerence can be compared to discrimination during the 1950s. …show more content…
Black and Gay people could be related to each other. Both Black and Gay people were both being treated unfairly at some point. The Blacks were considered as slaves then and segregating themselves or not even allowed to be in the same room as the whites. Lulu stopped, but she said,” You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here-they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?”page 48. They were discriminated due to their race and color. Their lives changed since after the The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which protects the rights of the citizens against discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex , or national