To Kill A Mockingbird Rhetorical Analysis

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The Clever Title of a Somewhat Enjoyable Paper In Harper Leeś To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper tries to emphasize the cruelty of racism, sexism, and discrimination against those who we do not try to understand. In To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows how discrimination and racism can tear a community apart. Everyone assumes Tom Robinson is guilty of rape simply because he is a colored man. It shows clear evidence from Atticus’s speech in chapter 22. “...-that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.” (Pg 204.) This shows and reinforces the fact that Macomb is a county that is racist and discriminatory toward colored men. White men are in a class above both women and negroes. White men have it all, and black men have the least. But there’s nothing black men can do about it. “As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." …show more content…

They are looked at as property instead of humans, and even though they are put one class above the negroes, they are still held below white men. “Sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifying”.(Pg.39) This quote shows how scout can be looked down because she is a girl. Jem calls her a girl and mocks her for acting like a girl as an insult, stereotyping females as scared and weak. “”He staked me out, marked me as his property, said I was the only girl I would ever love and then neglected me.” (Pg.41) This shows how females are treated with less respect and are looked at as property that can be reduced, reused, and recycled. In Macomb, females are looked at as fragile, contributing to Dill and Gems

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