How Does The Song Present The Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

Prejudice and discrimination are found across the entire world. For example, my dad once showed me the song, “Strange fruit”, it sounds like a silly name but actually leads up to gruesome metaphor about lynching in the South. The song lyrics describe the dead bodies so well that they almost make me sick. They describe the look of the hanging corpses with“The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth”. The song ends in silence after the singer refers back to the fruit metaphor with “Here is a strange and bitter fruit”. The ending haunts the listener and brings them back to think about the violence that resulted from prejudice. The subjects in to kill To Kill A Mockingbird perfectly describe the violence resulting from prejudice. In To Kill a Mockingbird,
In the trial, Tom reveals that Mayella kissed him and her dad witnessed it. So, what probably happened was that Bob beat Mayella because she kissed a black man. The reader never knows quite what happened, but the evidence makes it clear that Tom couldn't have committed the crime because he has a crippled left hand. The left hand was the primary attacking hand and Bob dominated in his left Another indicator was what Tom reluctantly repeated to the jury ,”'You goddamn whore, I'll kill ya'(194). According to Tom, Bob yelled this at Mayella after he saw the kiss. Bob clearly, threatened Mayella because she kissed Tom.Despite all of the evidence, the jury finds Tom guilty and the police escort him to prison. Shortly after Tom arrives at the prison, he attempts to escape. During the escape, the guards shoot Tom 17 times. The guards did not just shoot to stop Tom, they wanted to kill him. They would not shoot him in the head or chest if they simply wanted to stop him. Miss Maudie explains it as, “‘Seventeen bullet holes in him, they didn't have to shoot him that much'(235). Due to prejudice, the guards wanted to kill Tom because the jury finds him guilty of raping a white