White trash

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mocking Bird, a novel, 1960, racism in Maycomb Alabama is a very common occurring theme. Many people and families are affected by the way racism is used throughout the book and towards one another. Tom Robinson is a poor black man who dedicates all of his time into working and racism towards him changed his life. Although this theme was more popular in the time period of the 1900’s it is still a very big issue to this day. Some cases are brought to the extreme and are…

inferior to whites. How does racism appear in To Kill a Mockingbird?…

example of how these texts and images relate to each other. “Building the Troost Wall” explains how an imaginary wall was built on Troost to show the segregation in Southeast Kansas City. The whites lived in a white neighborhood on one side of Troost and the blacks live on the other side (Gotham, 93). The whites were moving to the more expensive, expanding suburbs while the blacks were living in the low, older income suburbs. Not only did the neighborhoods become segregated by the Troost Wall,…

Maycomb, white people are grown up to despise black people. Tom Robinson is one of the many black people that are shunned against. Very few white people think everyone should be equal, but Atticus thinks differently. As Tom and Atticus fight in court to show people that just because you are black doesn’t mean you have to be the guilty one. Tom, a man, who tried to be someone’s friend, then gets accused of rape, and later on dies because the white man always wins. Mayella was a lonely white…

apparent in his wording and the way Ms. Angelou describes him. He tells the class about the Central (white) school 's improvements and how they 'll be learning about chemistry and art. He then belittles the black students by saying they could possibly be athletes or service workers, which is almost nothing compared to what he said the white students could live up to be. As Ms. Angelou says, “The white kids were going to have a chance to become Galileos and Madame Curies and Edisons and Gauguins,…

Honor is given to those who follow the domain’s moral cowardice, the conspicuous, howbeit, have lost all honor by those who are followers. One of the most prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird is lost honor. Honor means to have high respect and Mr. Dolphus Raymond lost his respect when he professed to love a colored woman, have mixed children with her, and chose to be surrounded by those who don’t share the same skin color as him. “He’s got a colored woman and all sorts of mixed chillun”…

ground, one foot nailed to the floor.” Through the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee show numerous examples of how Tom Robinson wasn’t being cruel or dishonorable but still got treated like trash, when at the same time Atticus Finch wasn’t being cruel and treated with respect because he was white. First of all, the Ewells were going against Tom Robinson by saying that he did rape Mayella Ewell even though they didn't witness it with their own eyes this shows how cruel they were to…

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird taking place in the 1930s has issues with all issues. In the the novel To Kill A Mockingbird is mainly negative towards the residents of maycomb because of racism. Racism is a big effect on Maycomb. Every white person in maycomb other than Atticus Finch disrespects black people as if they don't get deserved to be treated equally, and because of how Atticus respects black people he is called a “Nigger lover”. In the trial of Tom Robinson, even though he…

made into an oscar winning film over time. Lee later claimed that this novel was inspired by the Scottsboro Trials in 1930, where nine black man were accused of raping two white women. In this novel, a black man is accused of raping a white women, and in the south there was no chance for him. The south was so racist that when a white women accused a black man of rape, there was no chance; he was dead. The man who was assigned to defend the accused Tom Robinson was Atticus Finch. Atticus is the…

embodies the ideals of the mockingbird. Mr. Robinson is wrongly accused and unfairly tried for supposedly raping the daughter of Bob Ewell, a spiteful and cruel white piece of trash. Tom Robinson’s innocent and hardworking personality personifies the purity of a mockingbird. Tom Robinson is only guilty of one thing, being a black man accused by a white man. Tom had no chance of justice in court, because “in the secret courts of men’s hearts, Atticus had no case. Tom was dead…