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Have you ever seen a mad dog? If you have then you know that it cannot be ignored and it must be dealt with quickly before someone gets hurt. Mad dogs don’t think straight because their minds are infected with a disease, much like people who have been filled with racist ideas. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the literary elements of character, conflict, and setting develop the theme that racism is a disease that has to be dealt with before it takes over. The mad dog had to be dealt with fast so that no one was hurt by it and so no one was affected by this disease that inflicted a poor dog that did nothing wrong.

During Tom Robinson’s trial, Scout starts to understand the entirety of racial injustice. We see this when Scout meets the lynch mob outside Tom’s cell before the trial, and she stopped them by talking to and embarrassing Mr. Cunningham. It was not until after that night

Throughout this novel, Scout gains insight into herself by learning to cope with racism. Scout first discovers that her father is defending Tom Robinson, an African American in the Maycomb community after she gets into a brawl with Cecil Jacobs when he calls her father a “nigger-lover”. “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting anymore … the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be”(Pg. 74). This quote shows how Scout has to cope with different ways to deal with the racism directed toward her father for defending a black man. Moreover, Scout learns to refrain from showing belligerence to those who insult her family and, instead turns to ignoring them and not giving them a reaction. When Scout acts out and harms those who are racist toward her family, it shows how she finds racism morally incorrect. Though she does not know what the term nigger-lover means, she still acts out because she is aware that it is an offensive term. Scout believes that people should not be discriminated against and her bursts of anger support this concept. Racism provides maturing children insight into themselves because whilst Scout

Also, even the children of the county view the blacks as lower class. They know that they are above them, and sometimes the children act like it. Scout says during the trial, “Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Negro,” (Lee 226). This shows that even innocent Scout can just act like she’s better than Tom.

Folks." Scout was trying to say that all people are created equal. No one, by nature, is superior to anybody else. This is a very contrary view to what most people believed at that time, especially in the South. There was prejudice between races and prejudice between families. The most obvious theme of the book is racism. Staged in the early 1930’s in southern Alabama, racism was still undeniably present. Even though the amendments which freed slaves and gave them rights were passed more than sixty years prior, the culture of the south intertwined with racism. Interracial marriages were illegal. Different races could not attend the same schools. It was the law that whites and blacks could not even be put together in the same jail cells. Looking at these things, one can only imagine the upheaval when a Negro was accused of raping a white woman: but did this stop Atticus from standing up for justice? No, it didn’t. He knew perfectly well how criticizing eyes would view the case; no matter how glaring the evidence was, the people wouldn’t accept an African American’s word over a white man’s. Atticus saw all people as equal, regardless of their skin color and he knew what was the right thing to do. He was a friend and ally to the African American community and they respected them for it. Another example is the Cunningham family. When Walter comes over for lunch, Scout criticizes him but

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout realizes society is not so kind to colored people, which is helpful to her development by giving her options to not follow society. Atticus teachers her that society’s norms of hating negroes is not acceptable, and that society is unenlightened. “‘Scout,’ said Atticus, ‘nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything--like snot-nose. It’s hard to explain--ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring Negroes over and above themselves…’ (Lee 144). Her father teaches her that the people who do not like colored people are just ignorant. During the 1960s, the period of To Kill a Mockingbird, society says that being black is not acceptable. Scout determines that she does not want to be a part of that society because of what her father teaches. Scout’s family is her society. Her family’s teachings are shown to be extremely beneficial to her character development. Her character develops because of her father’s beliefs, just like Jeannette’s did. She learns to have empathy, kindness and becomes very understanding. These are all traits that one can describe Scout as. If it was not for Scout’s father, it is likely that Scout

Some people believe the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is about love, while others believe it's about racism. The story is about a black man named Tom evicted for a crime he did not convict. The poor man was considered guilty for a crime he did not commite just because he is coloured. While the story has a lot of racism in it; it also has a lot of love. Atticus is on of many people that would protect a coloured person. Although he was put down for it he wanted to make things right. Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those terms that don't mean anything—like snot-nose. It's hard to explain—ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some

Imagine losing your family. Imagine separating and maybe never seeing any loved one ever again. In maus, the holocaust separates jews. Artie and his family have to go through what nobody should. This is all through racism. Racism is the main theme and cause of all the holocaust.

Charles R. Swindoll once said, “Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.” In both these stories the main characters learn about discrimination in their communities. They also learn how certain parents teach their kids to be prejudice of people who aren’t necessarily the same as them. To Kill Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee set in rural Alabama in the 1930’s.

Dill says to Scout outside the courthouse, “I know all that Scout. It was the way he said it made me sick, plain sick” (202). Dill also says to Scout, “It was just him I couldn’t stand.”, “That old Mr.Gilmer doin’ him thataway, talking so hatefully to him-”(202). Dill’s mind isn’t corrupted with prejudice yet so seeing Mr.Gilmer talk so rudely to Tom makes him uncomfortable. Dill doesn’t understand how he is feeling about the court case, but Dolphus Raymond does an he explains to him, “Cry about the simple hell people give other people-without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give to colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too” (205). What he means by this is that he knows how the white man treats the black man and how it is wrong. Dolphus Raymond explains to Dill that this is how he

Throughout the development of To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates Scout’s maturity into womanhood by means of accounting what it really is to be “good”. Yet before any actions would be taken in the pursuit of moral change, Scout seems to be one of the few children who are beginning to understand the true place of African Americans in the world. During a conversation with Dill after he wept over the treatment of Tom Robinson, Scout explains to him that “after all [Tom’s] just a Negro” (Lee 266). With a protagonist who holds such callow views of contentment, one truly receives a tone of innocence from Scout. On the other hand, nearer the end of this novel Scout seems to portray herself with knowledge far beyond her years. As she would

No one likes being discriminated by their race. If you use any excessive racism of any sorts excessively I will first warn you. I will give 3 warns and after that, it is a five-minute mute each mute’s time is increased by five minutes once the mute time reaches 15 minutes and you decide to continue this inappropriate behavior I will ask a higher power staff to punish you as I have used up all my ability to punish.

The Film A Time to Kill directed by Joel Schumacher, produced in 1996 is an American crime drama film and contains many examples of dominant attitudes in society. The film is focused around the dominant attitudes of racism in society which is primarily evident in the favouritism of whites in the perspective of law. The film features how a black man feared this discrimination so greatly he took the law into his own hands by punishing two white men the way two black men would be punished. Throughout the text we see the conflict between two opposing lawyers in court and how racism is an evident issue. This essay will discuss the dominant attitudes in society around the topic of racism and how they are represented and revealed by conflict between

John Grissom with the movie of A Time To Kill, has caught the attention of many people, showing how the system is unfair with race being involved. Caucasians get more advantage than African Americans would get all because of the racial system that is present throughout the book. Carl Lee is given an unfair trial, where the people know who he is and what he has done, and the fact that Clanton is mostly whites who are racist does not help his case. The racism is evident in this book when it comes to trials, KKK, and judicial system when it comes to any color other than Caucasians. Racism is one of the biggest issues throughout the entire book, and the fact that they are looking at color instead of facts or what they would have done is not

Back then it was bad, everyone was racist the kids would even get the used books from the white people, and the black people would be separated from the whites in school. If you notice now it is very different you see all types of skin color in classes and they all get along in some sort of way.