To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis
The Hidden Truths of Society Imagine owning someone. Imagine being able to control every movement of their fragile bones. Imagine making a marionette out of an innocent person. Now consider someone owning you. How would it feel, having to perform every task asked of you and being unable to say no? Perhaps that is how blacks felt in the when slavery began. Long since 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, an American colony, whites were deemed to be privileged.
When you ponder this today, does it seem ordinary? Most will say that slavery was a horrid exploitation of people, something humanity should be ashamed of. However, for hundreds of years, it was completely routine. To modern teenagers, something routine is …show more content…
When Reverend Sykes, the minister at First Purchase M.E. African Church, sees them sitting in the courtroom and hoping that the judge will decide in favor of Tom, he tells them, “Now don’t you be so confident…. I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man” (238). Scout and Jem, however, do not lose hope. Having learned some valuable lessons from their father, the children refuse to give up. Scout strongly believes in the co-existence of good and evil in the world and prays that good will inch over evil for Tom Robinson. "Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom's jury, but you saw something come between them and reason… There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads - they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life” (220). When Atticus verbalizes this, he emphasizes the fact that all good men are reasonable men, but evil in the occurrence of convicting Tom because of the color of his …show more content…
Everything Scout and Jem hoped for comes crashing down. People stand up, leaving the courtroom. But for a second, time stops. Almost all the evidence given to the judge proved Tom Robinson was innocent. So why was he proven guilty? The answer to this question swims in the deep, dark waters of the ocean known as Maycomb County, lurking, and getting closer, closer, closer, until it hits the surface. The only reason Tom was sent to prison was not because he committed the crime, but because he was
When you ponder this today, does it seem ordinary? Most will say that slavery was a horrid exploitation of people, something humanity should be ashamed of. However, for hundreds of years, it was completely routine. To modern teenagers, something routine is …show more content…
When Reverend Sykes, the minister at First Purchase M.E. African Church, sees them sitting in the courtroom and hoping that the judge will decide in favor of Tom, he tells them, “Now don’t you be so confident…. I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man” (238). Scout and Jem, however, do not lose hope. Having learned some valuable lessons from their father, the children refuse to give up. Scout strongly believes in the co-existence of good and evil in the world and prays that good will inch over evil for Tom Robinson. "Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom's jury, but you saw something come between them and reason… There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads - they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life” (220). When Atticus verbalizes this, he emphasizes the fact that all good men are reasonable men, but evil in the occurrence of convicting Tom because of the color of his …show more content…
Everything Scout and Jem hoped for comes crashing down. People stand up, leaving the courtroom. But for a second, time stops. Almost all the evidence given to the judge proved Tom Robinson was innocent. So why was he proven guilty? The answer to this question swims in the deep, dark waters of the ocean known as Maycomb County, lurking, and getting closer, closer, closer, until it hits the surface. The only reason Tom was sent to prison was not because he committed the crime, but because he was