How To Kill A Mockingbird Changed Today

The act of racism has definitely improved since the book To Kill a Mockingbird has taken place. Although, it is still a major topic today in America, it just may not be as obvious as it used to be. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about two young children, Jem and Jean Louise, and their father Atticus, who all live in Maycomb County, Alabama. Atticus is a lawyer who is dealing with his toughest case yet, with his children being dragged along and starting to understand how life really is. This novel is being compared to the article “America Has a Big Race Problem” by Jeff Nesbit, which is about how nearly every white person in America holds a complete racial bias that would subconsciously rather white people over black people. In the
Many citizens in Maycomb County are extremely racist, so when the children were walking into town one day, Mrs. Dubose saw them and criticized them and their father: “Your father’s no better than the trash he works for!” (Lee 135). Mrs. Dubose is referring to the colored folks as “trash” for the reason that is how the white people viewed them back in the day. These people in the community began to despise the Finches as Atticus was standing up for a black man because they assumed that he was trying to live that type of lifestyle. After Atticus lost the case, he was speaking with Jem about how unfair society is because of white men using black men: “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). In Maycomb County, there are only a few people who recognize the unfairness in our country, the Finches being some of them. Atticus was teaching Jem the right way though, because he knows that the world should not be set up into divisions of opinions. In the end, both of the texts explain the racism in Maycomb County during the 1930s because the white citizens treat the black citizens like they should not
Both of the texts discuss the same concept of racism, yet there is one difference - To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the 1930s, and “America Has a Big Race Problem” was written this year. Most citizens in America would probably say that our country is not at all racist, seeing that we want to be viewed as “perfect”. Hopefully within the next couple of years, we will never have to hear of racism because America will change for the better by accepting everyone for the way they are. Although this issue has drastically improved, that does not mean it is not still