to kill a mockingbird
Prejudice and mis-justice in To Kill a Mockingbird
The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee takes place in the southern part of America in the 1930s. An innocent yet humorous point of view in the story is through the eyes of Scout Finch. Scout is a young girl who is growing up with the debate that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man, Tom Robinson, with the charge of raping a white woman. The lives of the characters are changed by racism and this is the force that develops during the course of the story.
As previously mentioned, the point of view in this story is from Scout. childhood has been respectful to the black people in her community and she shows this with her bond with her maid, Calpurnia. Other children her age have been taught to acceptand believe in their parents' racially bias views, causing her many problems. Atticus's lawsuit seems to seperate his children's views fron others ,and this causes Scout to be taunted by other children on the playground. Her response to the children is with violence and Atticus, as an honoable father, does not tolerate this behaviour : "My fists were clenched I was ready to make fly. Cecil Jacobs had announced the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers."
Atticus's battle for justice causes more problems for Scout. She is continually defending him but the racist remarks do not stop. These remarks just show how cruel children can be to other children. She feels the need to defend her father to Francis, her cousin. He was also taunting her with accusations: "At a safe distance her called, `He's nothin' but a nigger-lover'." The benign force of racism has disrupted their lives, especially Scouts, through the old fashioned and discriminative opinions of the younger residents of Maycomb.
My viewpoint of racism has developed in the course of the story. Mr
The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee takes place in the southern part of America in the 1930s. An innocent yet humorous point of view in the story is through the eyes of Scout Finch. Scout is a young girl who is growing up with the debate that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man, Tom Robinson, with the charge of raping a white woman. The lives of the characters are changed by racism and this is the force that develops during the course of the story.
As previously mentioned, the point of view in this story is from Scout. childhood has been respectful to the black people in her community and she shows this with her bond with her maid, Calpurnia. Other children her age have been taught to acceptand believe in their parents' racially bias views, causing her many problems. Atticus's lawsuit seems to seperate his children's views fron others ,and this causes Scout to be taunted by other children on the playground. Her response to the children is with violence and Atticus, as an honoable father, does not tolerate this behaviour : "My fists were clenched I was ready to make fly. Cecil Jacobs had announced the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers."
Atticus's battle for justice causes more problems for Scout. She is continually defending him but the racist remarks do not stop. These remarks just show how cruel children can be to other children. She feels the need to defend her father to Francis, her cousin. He was also taunting her with accusations: "At a safe distance her called, `He's nothin' but a nigger-lover'." The benign force of racism has disrupted their lives, especially Scouts, through the old fashioned and discriminative opinions of the younger residents of Maycomb.
My viewpoint of racism has developed in the course of the story. Mr