Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee

Race doesn’t Only Separate
Martin Luther King Jr proclaims, “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” Contrary to that, in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Maycomb is an extremely segregated southern town which separates its citizens according to their race in places such as courthouses and churches. The author uses the character of Scout as a narrator, to express the story of her father, Atticus Finch, who defends Tom Robinson in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. During the course of the book, Scout and Jem, Scout’s brother, learn crucial lessons from her dad, such as understanding people’s point of view and innocence. Even though separation according
They'd think I was puttin' on airs to beat Moses’” (139). Specifically, Scout states, she “scratched her head,” referring to Calpurnia, Calpurnia didn’t know how to clearly explain why she utilized two dialects. When Calpurnia said, “white folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors,” she wants to express that both the Caucasians and the African-American had their unique identities. In relation to this, when Calpurnia exclaims “I puttin’ on airs to beat Moses,” the author describes how if Calpurnia converses with her congregation members in normal English, the church members would assume that Calpurnia is better than them, so she wants to resemble the African-American community in the town of Maycomb. She would preserve adequate relations with members of her race. Additionally, there is an allusion. Moses is recognized as one of the most crucial religious leaders in history. It is
For instance, when Scout and Jem converse about the social status of people in Maycomb, just after the trial, Jem tells Scout, “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewell’s down in the dump, and the Negroes” (249). Consequently, the author accentuates that among the Caucasian population there are significant differences: economical, educational, and behavioral which all relate to social class. Concerning the White population, Harper Lee positions upper-middle-class citizens at the top of the pyramid, the uneducated unprivileged rural people at the middle of the pyramid, and the uneducated, lazy, and poorest citizens on the bottom-top, to showcase that there is a proportional distribution of White citizens on the wealth pyramid. Lee uses a simile, “the kind like the Ewells down in the dump” to indicate what people of the lower white class reassemble during that time. In contradiction to this, African-Americans in the segregated city of Maycomb, regardless of wealth, education or type of job were all under Caucasians on the Social class pyramid, positioned on the bottom- bottom. After the attempt to lynch Tom Robinson, Dill said, ‘“He doesn’t look like trash.’ In response to