Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird And The Help

The theme that I have selected is racism. The texts that I have selected are the film Blood Diamond by Edward Zwick, the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, and the novel, The Secret Life of Bees. To focus on the connections about racism I used two questions: Which character is being mistreated in the text and why? And what is the end result of all the racism?

Which character is being mistreated in the text and why?

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the film The Help, both show people from different racial and religious groups being discriminated against. In To Kill a Mockingbird this person is Tom Robinson, he is a black man, who had been accused of rape, even though it was the victim’s father
Tom Robinson’s lawyer Atticus Finch fights for Tom’s freedom, but knows just like anyone else in the town that he will never win in court because of the racism that exists in Maycomb County. Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson are two maids who are both from the same ethnicity but a different story. A black woman, who taught her that everyone was equal, raised a woman called Skeeter Phelan. After Skeeter sees what the other white women are doing to their maids. “I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a colour, disease ain't the Negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it come in every white child's life – when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as whites” This passage points out that kids are born with racial prejudices, it's something they're taught from the older generation. Aibileen works hard to keep Mae Mobley's mind from being polluted. She has this idea to write a book about the maids and how they were being treated during the time that they were maids for the white people. At first Minny and Abileen don’t like the idea of this because if any one where to find out about the stories they gave to Skeeter they would no have a job and would maybe be killed. As both Abileen
In The novel The Secret Life of Bees is a novel that has a positive end result of all the racism. We see the negative racism at the beginning of the novel and then the positive result of all the racism towards the end. As the novel comes to an end, the final chapter concludes numerous storylines. In the beginning chapters, Rosaleen wants to register her vote but is prevented doing so, by white men that approach and abuse her. In the final chapter, she finally completes this task that she has been meaning to do so. Rosaleen’s gets arrested for disobeying the white men she faces arrest, her arrest leads Lily to leave T. Ray, which after that leads Lily and Rosaleen to the Boatwrights. In the final chapter, as Rosaleen is able to register this signals to the readers that the action of the novel has finished. As Though all of the action has finished there will still be very difficult times for Lily she will stop running. As the readers we see that Lily has found a home and for the moment staying put. Blood Diamond has a different ending of all the racism but is still positive. A man will die for one of these diamonds. While a powerful man is in prison called Sierra Leone. Danny Archer is a diamond smuggler, who meets a black man called Soloman Vandy, whom is a farmer who had been captured by soldiers who are fighting for Sierra Leone. As the rebels