To Kill A Mockingbird The Color Of Our Skin Analysis

At the end of the day, we know that the color of our skin will determine how we will be treated by everyone else. Whether you will be the dirt at the bottom of our shoes or equals on a podium. It happens in life and is depicted in book and movies. An example is a novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The novel follows Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her lder brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch, as well as their summertime friend, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris. The readers follow the children grow up to learn the sad truth of life, people are treated like dirt for the color their skin is. The children learn this as Atticus, Scout and Jem’s father takes on the case of Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape of a white girl. The case teaches them that

Throughout the novel, Atticus interacts with everyone else with respect and kindness, even to his own children. In chapter 3, Atticus and Scout are sat outside on the bench swing. Scout was upset over her new teacher at the school, Miss Caroline, and how her teacher had told her that she wouldn’t be allowed to read at night with Atticus anymore. She tries to convince Atticus to pull her from school, but he does not give in. Instead, he explains why Miss Caroline teaches this way, how she was taught differently and doesn’t know the reins to Maycomb. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of viewーuntil you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Atticus is teaching Scout that Miss Caroline isn’t like them, she hasn’t lived there all her life like Jem and Scout. She doesn’t have the experience of living and working in Maycomb. Scout should not make assumptions and judgments over what she has seen over one day. She should step into someone else’s shoes before trying to make any judgments about that person. Secondly, even though Atticus has heard of what their neighbor, Mrs. Dubose has told the children, he doesn’t act differently than to anyone else. One day, when walking past her front porch, Atticus greeted her the same way he would’ve greeted anyone else, “Good evening Mrs.

When the children have not learned about the case yet, many of their classmates already have. In chapter 9, “Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He announced in the school yard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers” (Lee 99). In the school yard, Scout was put on the spot for having Atticus as a father that protected blacks. The children were both teased by their classmates for this case. The children, especially Scout, have a natural reaction to protect their father, so she would start to fight with whoever this would be, which would lead her into trouble. While back in Finch’s Landing for the holidays, Scout has to play with her cousin Francis. Her cousin has also learned about the case, like the rest of the Finch family. Once, Francis says, “Just what I said. Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he’s turned out a nigger-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb again” (Lee 110). Like many other people of Maycomb and his family, Francis gives us his opinion of Atticus defending a black man. They all say that since he is defending those of a different color, that made Atticus a blacks-lover. But Atticus doesn’t take these comments to heart. Even past his many comments that he has gotten from this case, he doesn’t try to get out of the case because he feels that Tom should be able to get a chance to be