Racial Prejudice in Tkam

Racial Prejudice Racism in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930's, leads to the unjustified death of a black man. Atticus, a lawyer who defends a black man, gets verbally abused in a racist way by the other citizens of Maycomb. Maycomb, Alabama is a racially prejudice town, the blacks live poorly, while the whites reign supreme to them. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she fights against racial prejudice from her own perspective. Bob Ewell abuses Atticus verbally several times during the trial of Tom Robinson. Bob spits on Atticus’ face on the street after he was humiliated at the trial (219) . He just felt plain angry that he did not win perfectly like he had hoped. Bob says later to Atticus,” What kind of man are you?” Implying that Atticus seems “not right” defending a black man for justice. Bob Ewell is very unforgiving to anyone who defends Tom throughout the whole book, so he seems like one racist fellow. Furthermore, Cecil Jacobs shows a bit of abuse towards Atticus through talking to Scout. For instance, at one point in the book, Cecil Jacobs tells her what he thinks about Atticus, ”He’s nothin’ but a nigger-lover.” He is young and believes anything he hears. Cecil several times at school insults Atticus about defending a black man (through scout), which Scout doesn’t take of course (77). Again, I believe he is just immature and has learned from what has been going on around him. To sum it up, Cecil, even though he is younger than most, shows a bit of racist attitude towards Atticus. At last, What Atticus does to break this is as simple as defending Tom! Judge Taylor asked Atticus specifically to defend Tom . Taylor did that because he knew that Atticus is a fair and loving person, so Judge Taylor knew Atticus would defend him at his best. Atticus has several long speeches about how the trial never should have happened, and that he pities everyone who agrees with Bob and everyone against Tom( 202-205).They have little to no