In the three paragraphs I wrote racism is a really big problem for people in Maycomb and how racism is affecting Scouts family and the community members around her and I’m going to show you how it’s affecting everybody in her home town.
In the 1930’s, south, racism is happening. Even little kids are being taught to be racist during this time period.. For example, Scout's cousin Francis is getting his information from his grandma who lived through the past and had experience racism. Her cousin, Francis, states, ”If uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs that's his business like grandma says I guess it ain’t your fault that Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover i’m here to tell you it ain’t certainly mortify the rest of the family” (Lee
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Moreover, it moved to the point to where people are being racist and don't even realize that they are being racist. This act of non-awareness of racism acts in most situation is shown when Scout thought that Boo shot a black person, “I tripped as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood” (Lee 17). For this reason, acts of racism could happen to anybody who is being racist and people can see the imagery that is going on in the story and how this imagery is affecting all family and community members. Racism could be affecting people and others can see that with Scout. She doesn’t realize the imagery and acts of racism from family and community members are indeed racism, but she also doesn’t understand what’s going on. Scout and Jem are being racist because of what they did with the snowman, but don’t realize it. For example, the kids casually converse, “looks messy now, but it won’t later” he said Jem scooped up an armful of dirt patted it into a mound on which he added another load and another until he had constructed a torso.” Jem i ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman” I said “he won’t be black for long he grunted” (Lee 89). This is why racism is considered a brown cloud that hovers over the community. Throughout the novel, racism is a big problem and at times a reader feels that the brown racist cloud offers sunlight, or someone not being racist; however, the cloud
Scout and Jem are the farthest thing from being racist or prejudiced, they are both two kids raised in a home where racism and prejudice are frowned upon. Scout’s family is completely against racism and prejudice. In the town of Maycomb, prejudice is a disease, but Jem, Scout, and Dill are immune to this illness because of the people who raise them. For example, when Cecil and Francis tell Scout that it is a disgrace for Atticus to defend Tom, even though Francis is Scouts cousin, also when Scout and Jem hear the verdict of Tom’s case they both cry and are angry about the sentence while the rest of the town is happy. Scout doesn’t want Walter Cunningham to come over for dinner because she thinks he is a disgrace.
He had announced in the schoolyard the day before the Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers.” This quote shows that Scout was being shunned by her classmates because of what Atticus was doing. Jem was also being shunned like Scout because of this. Also Atticus was sometimes verbally attacked by fellow adults in their community. Since Atticus and his family were being looked down upon for defending a African America this supports the fact of the theme of racism being present in this novel.
Many social issues have been observed throughout the movie. This movie depicts just how real prejudism is. Some clips in the movie show prejudistic remarks being made on the color of one 's skin. An example would be in the courthouse a nigger over him, and again when Scout asks Atticus if he defends niggers. Other prejudistic remarks were made on the way one looked, or acted. An example here is when Jem, Dill, and Scout were playing outside and they were passing Mrs. Dubose 's house and Mrs. Dubose yelled out to Scout “What did you say, You ugly little girl?” The entire film depicts hints of violence as well; examples here are Scout fighting at school and Bob Ewell abusing his daughter, and then attempting to attack Scout and Jem. All of these indiscretions are still around today and still impact our
Scout?s journey towards racial acceptance and understanding is a treacherous one barricaded by influence. Disguised by innocence Scout is influenced easily at the beginning of the novel. Eventually, Scout learns to reveal her awareness and understanding of prejudicial conception by developing her own perspective on the issue. She discovers that race has no importance when determining someone?s status or personal well-being. Harper Lee develops Scout mentally, emotionally, and socially throughout the novel contributing to a perspective based on racial balance and admission.
Throughout the novel Harper Lee explores the racism, prejudice, and the innocence that occurs throughout the book. She shows these themes through her strong use of symbolism throughout the story. Even though To Kill a Mockingbird was written in the 1960’s, the powerful symbolism this book contributes to our society is tremendous. This attribute is racist (Smykowski). To Kill a Mockingbird reveals a story about Scout’s childhood growing up with her father and brother, in an accustomed southern town that believed heavily in ethnological morals (Shackelford).
When readers analyze the book, they recognize the prejudices because they are not a part of their everyday life. Scout notices the prejudices, but she doesn’t recognize them as prejudices yet. She instead thinks of them as part of normal life. This aspect of not recognizing the prejudices proves that Scout is innocently unaware of the prejudices at work in the beginning of the book, but this changes as the book continues.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”-Martin Luther King Jr. This quote shows how racism is like darkness and hate and love and light are the only way to drive racism out. The story takes place at the time of the great depression. Scout lives in a very racist and judgement city in the south. A black male is accused of raping a white woman. Scouts dad Atticus gets appointed to be the defendant's lawyer. Racism is an antagonist in To Kill A Mockingbird because the white people of Maycomb discriminate the blacks and make them feel lesser. The theme racism can be harmful to everyone is shown by many characters throughout the book.
Fiction usually based on what happened in real life. This novel, Harper Lee based on what she seen and writes about it. Racism was quite popular that moment. At the start of the story Harper doesn’t want to go directly into the problems but wanted it grows slowly through a vision of a little girl – Scout. It begins with the memories of a child “when he was nearly thirteen”. This is another interesting way from style of writing, beginning slowly and calm yet deeply meaning in the end. In this novel and all above 15 first chapters, racism exist in people’s mind, on actions and mostly from dialogue, questions they’ve been asked by people around. Relationship in social also causes the problems like this to happen too.
The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. The novel is set in the 1930's, a time when racism was very prevalent. Although bigotry and segregation were pointed in majority towards blacks, other accounts towards whites were also heard of, though not as commonly. There are acts that are so discreet that you almost don't catch them, but along with those, there are blatant acts of bigotry that would never occur in our time. Lee addresses many of these feelings in her novel.
As kids who were raised to respect everyone, and not judge people by their race, they seem to be the outcast in school because of this. The children in Scouts, school are not accustomed to people respecting African-Americans and as a result they taunt and harass Atticus’ children. As a result of the violence towards Scout, Scout responds to violence with violence. However, Atticus is not happy with the way Scout is handling her problems. Racism is a recurring theme throughout the course of the story and affects all of the main characters in several ways.
How would you like it if someone walked up to you and berated you based on the color of your skin? A characteristic like that isn’t even something you can control, so an insult of that nature can leave one furious and oppressed. Discrimination is inevitable in any culture, throughout history, in modern times, and even in ancient times. For example, the oppression and murder of 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the African Slave Trade which occurred for multiple centuries, and more recently, the “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya people in Myanmar, brought on by the government of the Asian nation, all of which are tragedies doomed to happen when history repeats itself and people do not learn
Racism presents itself in many ways in the town of Maycomb. Some are blatant and open, but others are more insidious. One obvious way that racism presents itself is in the result of Tom Robinson’s trial. Another apparent example is the bullying Jem and Scout had to endure as a result of Atticus’s appointment as Tom Robinson’s defense attorney. A less easily discernible case is the persecution of Mr. Dolphus Raymond, who chose to live his life in close relation with the colored community.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, many different themes come into view. One major theme that played a big role in the character’s lives is racial prejudice. Racism is an unending problem throughout the book. The song “Message from a Black Man” by The Temptations has many similarities to the theme of racial discrimination. Therefore, both the novel and the song prove that racism was a great obstacle for some people at a point.
This shows that scout has heard the word used at school and assumed that because other people use it, it is not wrong. This demonstrates how racism can be spread across generations. People with racist ideas might not realise that their beliefs are offensive because it is what they have been brought up with. The most obvious example of racism in the book is the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white girl. After hearing the evidence from both sides it is quite obvious that Tom Robinson is not guilty of th... ...
Lee used this to exhibit that Scout was living in her own world, unaware that people around her aren’t as respectful and tolerant of African Americans as her family. Scout is completely naive to the true amount of tolerance for black skinned people. But that changed after the Tom Robinson trial. As Tom Robinson was convicted by an all-white jury, the truth of racism dawns on Scout. After Tom Robinson was shot for trying to escape the prison camp he was in, Mr. Underwood released his editorial on the incidence.