White trash

Aunt Alexandra thinks she is better than people like the Ewells and the Cunninghams because they are thought of as “trash” since they are poor. On Scout’s first days of school, the new teacher tries to gave Walter Cunningham money for lunch, but Scout has to explain to her that no one ever gives anything to the Cunninghams because they can’t pay it back. “He had probably…

could not stand during the National Anthem. The author also explained how Thomas felt about the news. He did say that it is not fair and equal and was probably pointing at being black and was differentiating the difference between being black and white. People are not treated equally in this country. I do consider that it is a terrible feeling for not being a part of something that you have been for past many years. He also got emotional as well. Trump said he should be…

African-American presence which makes the novel diverse and fresh. “In Lee’s novel of a small southern town, the Africanist presence is muted in spite of the prominence of the trial in which an innocent black man stands accused of the rape of a young white woman. Nevertheless, within the novel itself the African-American characters enable the town of Maycomb, Alabama, to define itself. Viewed as a part of the literary canon, at least as it is introduced to high school students, To Kill a…

raping and physically assaulting Mayella Ewell (a white women). Through the brilliance of Robinson’s attorney, Atticus Finch, it is revealed that it…

In this story there are three levels of white social hierarchy. The first level is the middle class whites who get by pretty easily like the Finch’s, next are the poor whites who do there best to get by like Boo Radleys family, and the last level is the “white trash” which is the poor, whites who barely get by and are dirty like the Ewells. An example of classism being used is no one cares if the Ewells go to school…

Maycomb’s inequality between black and white people. Atticus tells Jem that in their courts when it’s a white man’s word against a black man, the white man always wins. Jem is outraged at the people of his town and of how discriminative they are. “Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” (Lee, 295). Atticus is explaining to Jem at this point, that if white men that cheat black men in court…

had to grow up in. When he encounters whites who want to give him a good job and a spacious and clean room with plenty to eat, he can’t refuse. When Bigger is hired by Mr. and Mrs. Dalton to be the family chauffeur, a great deal of responsibility is held on his shoulder. Bigger has been damaged by the cruelty of twenty years of life in utter poverty, while the Daltons get to experience the best luxuries there are. Bigger feels ashamed in front of the whites, the Daltons. He also feels…

and the characters in the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett are no exception. One character in particular who has to contend with and is considerably influenced by her past is Celia. Celia, unlike the other privileged white ladies of Jackson, grew up dirt-poor in a white-trash town in Southern Mississippi called Sugar Ditch. Not many specifics are mentioned in relation to her childhood there, but it can be inferred that it was quite a harsh environment. Poor, starving, and uneducated, Celia’s…

Around 1910 and early 1900s racism was a majorpart of the society, and white people were racist. Even though racism was common in the early 1900s . White people are not as racist in today as they were before. Racism in the book happens all the time that is the main point of the book. Racism is shown by the whites in Maycomb against the Blacks like when the jury says that Tom Robinson was guilty of raping Mayella. The whole jury is white voting against a black guy. A quote from the book that…

that Mrs. Turpin needs to have a look at herself and in the things that she believes in. The reader already knows that Mrs. Turpin believes in a hierarchy and that she places herself, because she is white and a landowner, above other people, particularly black people and those she considers white trash. Mary Grace’s eyes are again significant later in the story when Mrs. Turpin again notices them after Mary Grace has attacked her. Mary Grace’s eyes ‘seemed a much lighter blue than before, as if…