To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: The Impact Of Racism

Shelby Anderson
Mr. Kirkendall
English 1 Honors
22 May 2016
The Impact of Racism "If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time, it's because he wants to stay inside" (240). We don't even realize it but our biased perspectives seriously mess up our world. Throughout history, racism has always been present. We as people don't do much for stopping racism, it has simply become an issue that is overlooked in our world. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is unfairly accused of rape just
There are so many incidents like the following example that it isn't even important anymore. People being judged and unfairly treated is just something that is completely normal today in our world. For example, "A young man named Emmett Till, only fourteen years old, was killed in Mississippi in 1955 after supposedly flirting with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. Soon after, Bryant’s husband, Roy, and his half-brother, J. W. Milam, went to Till’s great-uncle’s house and took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes before shooting him in the head and throwing of his body in a nearby river. His mother insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing" (atlantablackstar.com). This is one of the many examples of black people being unfairly treated that at go on everyday in our world and people are rarely aware of it, if at all. Our world is so broken, that if history continues to repeat itself, racism will never be completely stopped, it will just always be a part of Earth that we don't think much of, but we always know that is
People today always jump to conclusions, whether we realize it or not. We judge people's appearances and quickly make assumptions we don't know to be true or not because it is just some thing we as humans do. Paulo Coelho says: "If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” According to most people in the town of Maycomb, black people are not seen as equal and are frowned upon, to say the least. They think that all black people are bad. This people group is a perfect example of how people have biased view on how innocent people should look and black people most definitely do not look innocent to them. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, the character Atticus Finch does an amazing job of putting things into perspective before actually making any conclusions, unlike most people in Maycomb, who continually jump to conclusions before actually listening to what people had to say. Racism blocks their views on just about everything. Tom Robinson was an innocent man but because of how corrupt the society in Maycomb was, he was killed. Atticus Finch says: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (Lee 108). Everyone falls short of this, we all jump to conclusions before we even meet