To Kill A Mockingbird Book Report
To Kill A Mockingbird
“ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” Martin Luther King Jr. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is mainly about Scout, a six year old girl, and her brother Jem, a ten year old, growing up. Many things happen in their life, that the outcome rids them of their childhood. One of the main things that rids them of their childhood is watching a trial, in person, in which her father, Atticus, is working in the case. This trial is about a colored man, Tom, who was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. As scout is watching everything that is happening inside the courtroom and …show more content…
Some are directed to certain people, but others are just to a specific community in general. One example would be when Scout is in school, and they’re talking about Adolf Hitler and how he persecuted the jews. “They’re ain’t no need to persecute them. They’re white ain’t they”(Lee 329). One of Scout’s classmates made this comment. This shows the racism that is going on because since the jews were white, the kids thought that nothing should happen to them. The only people who should have been persecuted were the negroes. Since the kids grow up in a white home where their family talks bad about negroes, they think all negroes are the same. Another example of racism in the book is how the negroes don’t get much respect, even in their own home. “Negroes worshipped in it on sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays,”( Lee 157). This shows how much disrespect the negroes receive. Not even because the white people and the colored people worship the same god. Even though the negroes worship in it on sundays, the white people don’t care. To them wherever the negroes are, it’s a bad place. This is why racism happens a lot in the book. There is no respect coming from either side, they all just dislike each other. Therefore, To Kill a Mockingbird has many racist comments and actions throughout the
“ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” Martin Luther King Jr. Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is mainly about Scout, a six year old girl, and her brother Jem, a ten year old, growing up. Many things happen in their life, that the outcome rids them of their childhood. One of the main things that rids them of their childhood is watching a trial, in person, in which her father, Atticus, is working in the case. This trial is about a colored man, Tom, who was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. As scout is watching everything that is happening inside the courtroom and …show more content…
Some are directed to certain people, but others are just to a specific community in general. One example would be when Scout is in school, and they’re talking about Adolf Hitler and how he persecuted the jews. “They’re ain’t no need to persecute them. They’re white ain’t they”(Lee 329). One of Scout’s classmates made this comment. This shows the racism that is going on because since the jews were white, the kids thought that nothing should happen to them. The only people who should have been persecuted were the negroes. Since the kids grow up in a white home where their family talks bad about negroes, they think all negroes are the same. Another example of racism in the book is how the negroes don’t get much respect, even in their own home. “Negroes worshipped in it on sundays and white men gambled in it on weekdays,”( Lee 157). This shows how much disrespect the negroes receive. Not even because the white people and the colored people worship the same god. Even though the negroes worship in it on sundays, the white people don’t care. To them wherever the negroes are, it’s a bad place. This is why racism happens a lot in the book. There is no respect coming from either side, they all just dislike each other. Therefore, To Kill a Mockingbird has many racist comments and actions throughout the