Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, topics such as class and gender are shown; however, the major theme that the author conveys is racism. Throughout the story, Scout Finch, the main character, lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. The three of them live in Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. During the summer, Scout spends her time with Jem and their friend, Dill, who comes to Maycomb each summer to visit his aunt. The children wind up fixated on Boo Radley, the hermetic neighbor reputed to have cut his own particular father in the leg with a couple of scissors. During the school year, Boo Radley leaves small presents for Scout and Jem in the knothole of a tree in their backyard. Scout’s story,

For instance when Atticus tells Jem, “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life…” (Lee, 220) In the 1930’s, African Americans were conveyed as a piece of property rather than a human being. Atticus explains that to Jem telling him about the segregation against blacks. Ergo, not being seen as a human being with rights limits the selection of choices one has in a society. For instance, being able to get a job and using the same restroom. In that manner, Atticus continues to explain to Jem, “There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life,” (Lee, 220) When a white man is in court or in any situation, the white man is always correct; however, the black may be correct, but because of skin color, a black man is wrong no matter what. Taking this into account this limits one’s contribution to

For instance, in an article by Jennifer Szalai, she states that “Theoharis delves into the stubborn persistence of segregated schools in New York City, as well as ‘the redneckification of racism,’ wherein white liberals in the North could use naked displays of racism in the South as an excuse to let their own discriminatory systems off the hook” (Black Lives Matter). Segregation of blacks still is happening, yet it hasn’t improved, leading into closed opportunities for blacks in society which encloses into Atticus’s life lessons to Jem. In addition, Jennifer Szalai states, “For Khan-Cullors and her neighbors, “the mass incarceration of first our fathers and later our mothers made our lives entirely unsafe,” (Black Lives Matter). The segregation of blacks has caused black people to be unsafe, causing conflicts such as unfairness and superiority of other races which blends into Atticus main