What Makes a Society
Imagine being hated and not trusted simply because of the color of your skin. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are children of a lawyer taking a case that will change their life for the better. In the small county of Maycomb, it’s unusual for white people to defend a person of color especially if the color is black. Their father, Atticus, not only defends a black person, Tom Robinson, he defends him with power and a purpose. Majority of the town is against the idea of Atticus defending a “nigger” and soon they start talking and the kids become affected by name calling and taunting. They do make friends along the way like the “black community”, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley. In the end, they do …show more content…
In the schoolyard, Cecil Jacobs consistently taunts Scout with racist smears towards her father. “He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.” “..’s what everybody at school says” (Lee 99) In what way is this considered okay? If their parents make it okay. In the County of Maycomb they've been brainwashed by generations before them that people of the white race are superior to the people with color. This has been so engraved in their minds that society has made it acceptable for a 6 year old to bluntly use the “n” word on an elementary campus without punishment. The only one who took it some type of way was Scout and still isn’t it sad that children use “defending niggers” as an insult. That’s sadly so normal for children and adults in this time period. People are so corrupted they can’t handle the fact of a white man loving a black woman. “Some folks don’t—like the way I live. “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey—that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.”(Lee 268) The county can not accept the fact of interracial marriage that Mr. Raymond feels the need to give them a false hope as to why he acts the way he does. When your living in a place so destroyed you feel the need to mask your marriage for the sake of the county is really sad. If love is love why does it matter what race ir comes from? Well in the 30’s it mattered so much you couldn’t marry out of your race. Imagine not being able to be with who you love because you could be punished for it. Corruption can also affect a groups actions based on how they want society to perceive them. “Then
Imagine being hated and not trusted simply because of the color of your skin. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are children of a lawyer taking a case that will change their life for the better. In the small county of Maycomb, it’s unusual for white people to defend a person of color especially if the color is black. Their father, Atticus, not only defends a black person, Tom Robinson, he defends him with power and a purpose. Majority of the town is against the idea of Atticus defending a “nigger” and soon they start talking and the kids become affected by name calling and taunting. They do make friends along the way like the “black community”, Miss Maudie, and Boo Radley. In the end, they do …show more content…
In the schoolyard, Cecil Jacobs consistently taunts Scout with racist smears towards her father. “He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.” “..’s what everybody at school says” (Lee 99) In what way is this considered okay? If their parents make it okay. In the County of Maycomb they've been brainwashed by generations before them that people of the white race are superior to the people with color. This has been so engraved in their minds that society has made it acceptable for a 6 year old to bluntly use the “n” word on an elementary campus without punishment. The only one who took it some type of way was Scout and still isn’t it sad that children use “defending niggers” as an insult. That’s sadly so normal for children and adults in this time period. People are so corrupted they can’t handle the fact of a white man loving a black woman. “Some folks don’t—like the way I live. “I try to give ‘em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.When I come to town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey—that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.”(Lee 268) The county can not accept the fact of interracial marriage that Mr. Raymond feels the need to give them a false hope as to why he acts the way he does. When your living in a place so destroyed you feel the need to mask your marriage for the sake of the county is really sad. If love is love why does it matter what race ir comes from? Well in the 30’s it mattered so much you couldn’t marry out of your race. Imagine not being able to be with who you love because you could be punished for it. Corruption can also affect a groups actions based on how they want society to perceive them. “Then