To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book showing how people can grow together. We have Scout and Jem growing up together in an innocent childhood growing into adulthood. We have Tom Robinson, an African American man who, is going to court with Atticus Finch (scouts father) and is trying to defend Tom against the harming white community. Tom Robinson was accused of rape of a white female Mayella. The raping of a white woman by a black man is similar to The Scottsboro Trial in 1933, where 9 black men were falsely accused of raping two white women.
In this we can see themes of the great depression. This book showed people what it really was like for African Americans in the south. People falsely accusing a black man for rape, simply because of his skin color is unjust. This is what many African Americans faced with during the great depression. They would always get the shorter end of the stick. We also have a theme of social class. The farmers in the city of Maycomb, were below the normal white civilian. The only thing worse than farmers were the white trash and then of course, at the bottom, we have the blacks. There was one more group of people represented in this story and they were the mentally ill. Boo Radley wasn’t mistreated, per se, but he wasn’t allowed to interact with people in the mainstream. You …show more content…
Bob tries to get revenge one night by trying to attack both Jem and Scout walking home. Boo Radley, a character that has never shown his face, comes to the rescue and fights off Bob, which leads to Bobs’ death. There were a lot of good people in this town, starting with the Sheriff. He demonstrates the kindness and compassion by refusing to investigate Ewell’s death any further than he had done that night. He knew Boo Radley had killed him, but Mr. Ewell wasn’t worth the time, effort or possible hardship on Boo to pursue the