Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” says Mrs. Dubose to Scout. The well-known novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a simple-minded view of life deep down in Southern America in the 1930s. When reading this book, individuals may feel as if it is a guiltless but humorous demeanor in the story to see how Jem and Scout French live their everyday lives. The lives of these characters are changing more and more each day by the influence of take place racism taking place. In this paper, we will be discussing the different types of racism that may appear during these hard times that such characters were forced to deal with. Racism is the perception of different races and is the thought of one race or color of …show more content…

Dolphus Raymond tells us about his feelings in the scene where he is talking to Scout and Dill during the court case. According to the community, Mr. Raymond is known as a sinful man. While living in a world of sin, he had the privilege of fathering mixed children. He was a white man who was married to a black women. In the time of the novel, public drinking was essential to have a paper bag casing the drink. Raymond elects to carry with him Coca-Cola in a paper bag, making individuals in the community believe that he was an alcoholic. Taking into consideration the felony that he would soon come face to face with, Mr. Raymond pretended to be a drunk. Though he is the complete opposite, Raymond tells Scout and Dill he does this for an excuse to humanity. That way he could use this as an excuse to display why he married a women of color. "Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that is the way I want to live." While he insists on telling the children his secret, they already know that racism is completely wrong and that they will not be around people who are stuck they’re old-fashioned opinions. This incident displays racism as it shows once again how whites are ashamed to be seen with an individual of color. Jem and Scout are looking forward to being those individuals with new opinions about racism, which includes fairness as well as

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