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Tom lost the case because of his race, even though the evidence
clearly indicated otherwise.
"Your left handed, Mr. Ewell."
The only reason Mayella had to
accuse Tom Robinson of rape was because
of the shame that she would face if people
knew the truth.
"She did something that in our society is
unacceptable: She kissed a black man." -pg. 204
Tom Robinson was
given the death sentence for
Meyella to cover her shame, and was
killed trying to escape when he died. Even after all of this,
Bob Ewell had to stalk and
make fun of Tom's wife.
Judge Taylor was polling the jury. "Guilty... guilty... guilty... guilty..."
Mr. Raynum had to fake alcoholism in order for people to
accept him being around black people. It was considered more sociably acceptable to be an alcoholic than it was to be around black people at that time.
When Mr. Raynum was pretending to drink alcohol, people thought of him as lower than they are, as they did with the people who he was around. It was even more unacceptable for him to have a black wife, and it couldn't be official by law.
Lulu's negative attitude towards Jem and Scout being at her church showed the even black people had accepted that in their society they were unequal and weren't supposed to be in the same area or the same church.
T LERANCE RULES
Caleb VanSteenwyk and Jacob Haugen
There were many examples of racism in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. There was the main part of the book – the Tom Robinson case – was the largest example. Tom Robinson’s case was lost for him, because he was black. It was also only started in the first place because of his race. If he wasn’t black, Bob Ewell wouldn’t have been so mad, and Mayella wouldn’t have had to cover up her story by accusing him of rape. If it was a different time period or even set in a different place, the outcome might have been different. During the time period, the South was a lot more prejudice against African Americans than northern states are, ever since the Civil War. The trial was unfair in both reason and outcome .
Another example in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Mr. Raynum. It was illegal for him to marry who he wanted to because she was black, and people would hate him if he hung out with black people. Even though he couldn’t technically marry her, he lived with her like it was a marriage, and had kids with her. In order for people not to hate him, he pretended to be an alcoholic, and they would think he was crazy anyways and not care as much. But, the whole time, he wasn’t actually drinking alcohol. He was just drinking coca-cola the whole time, tricking everyone.
In the book, many people in the book weren’t racist. Mr. Underhill was racist, but still helped people out because he thought the case itself was unfair. The, of course, there was Atticus. He had no choice whether or not to take the Tom Robinson case, so people didn’t blame him for that. People hated him because he was actually trying to defend Tom and win him the case. Even though all evidence pointed towards Tom being innocent, he was ruled guilty. Everyone who tried to stand up for Tom or any other black person was punished or outcasted from the town.
The main part of the book was all about racism, because it was still there for decades after the time that the book took place was over. Throughout the whole book, many examples of racism was presented in the book. The consequences for the racism ranged from being looked down on as crazy, to life in prison, and even to death. Anyone involved in stopping these acts would be looked at as if they were evil, while doing the right thing. To Kill a Mockingbird covers all these and addresses their problems.
To Kill a Mockingbird