Literary Elements In To Kill A Mockingbird

Have you ever wondered how to use literary elements and wondered how they affect a passage of a story? Well today I chose a passage from the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, to help show the literary elements of the passage and what they look like, or in other words what were the character, conflict, and setting and how it develops the theme of the passage, A theme that I have made to help choose the literary elements, is that “Racism can occur anytime and anywhere in the world, even in very small towns with a low population.” The passage I have chosen to help make my theme and literary elements, is when Tom Robinson was being convicted of rape and how the whole trial plays out, who is winning, and how racism affects Tom Robinson
Segregation took place all across the south of the United States, including in small little towns like Maycomb, the place where the whole book takes place. The court is located in the middle of the town and whenever there is a new trial everyone goes there, even the blacks. “ The Negroes, having waited for the white people to go upstairs began to come in.” (218). This quote help shows the time period where this whole book took make place, and how segregation was a huge issue and how many people were affected by the whole act. “To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books that mingled with old damp cement and stale urine. (217). This quote help gives a visual description on how to reach the courtroom and what people had to walk through. Both of the quotes help explain where the main setting of the passage I chose, and how they help explain how the sections of the courthouse was split up and where the colored people sat and where the whites