In The Heat Of The Night Analysis
Racism is one of the world's major issues today that has been continuing on for centuries. In the stories, In The Heat Of The NIght, written by John Ball, and in To Kill A
Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, racism promotes a great deal of negative relations and actions between the characters. In the story, In the Heat Of The Night, Virgil Tibbs is associated with racism. Virgil Tibbs becomes a suspect of murder for being out late at a train station and for being black. In the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson faces racism. Tom gets accused of “sexualy assualting” Mayella Ewel. A great amount of racism is shown in these two stories between the characters and they also share many similarities as racism towards other characters.
Virgil Tibbs experiences racism from Sam Wood in the story, In The Heat Of The Night. In this story, Enrico Mantoli, a host of a music festival, is found dead late at night. Sam Wood finds Virgil Tibbs, an African-American Northerner waiting at a train station at a late hour and arrest him in suspicions of murder because he is black. The author demonstrates this when he expresses: “If he had been a little lighter, Sam would have seen white blood on him, but his skin was too black for that” (Ball 15). This quote characterizes that Sam Wood is racist because he is …show more content…
In The Heat Of The Night, Virgil Tibbs is accused of murder and is attacked as well as being called racist names. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of “sexually assaulting” a young white woman, gets shot seventeen times and is also, called racist names, just like what Virgil Tibbs is experiencing. In both these stories, characters illustrate hatred towards Virgil and Tom because they are black. This is demonstrated verbally and by their actions. This proves that they are racist and this creates an activity of negativity towards the
Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, racism promotes a great deal of negative relations and actions between the characters. In the story, In the Heat Of The Night, Virgil Tibbs is associated with racism. Virgil Tibbs becomes a suspect of murder for being out late at a train station and for being black. In the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson faces racism. Tom gets accused of “sexualy assualting” Mayella Ewel. A great amount of racism is shown in these two stories between the characters and they also share many similarities as racism towards other characters.
Virgil Tibbs experiences racism from Sam Wood in the story, In The Heat Of The Night. In this story, Enrico Mantoli, a host of a music festival, is found dead late at night. Sam Wood finds Virgil Tibbs, an African-American Northerner waiting at a train station at a late hour and arrest him in suspicions of murder because he is black. The author demonstrates this when he expresses: “If he had been a little lighter, Sam would have seen white blood on him, but his skin was too black for that” (Ball 15). This quote characterizes that Sam Wood is racist because he is …show more content…
In The Heat Of The Night, Virgil Tibbs is accused of murder and is attacked as well as being called racist names. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is accused of “sexually assaulting” a young white woman, gets shot seventeen times and is also, called racist names, just like what Virgil Tibbs is experiencing. In both these stories, characters illustrate hatred towards Virgil and Tom because they are black. This is demonstrated verbally and by their actions. This proves that they are racist and this creates an activity of negativity towards the