What Is The White Community In To Kill A Mockingbird
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, which was placed around 1920s and 1930s, there were many problems between African Americans and white people. The main factor in all of the issues was racism. The white community in America viewed the coming together as immoral. They were considered “separate, but equal.” People didn't view the two races as equal. Separation actually isn't equal, so they shouldn't have been viewed that way. If they were equal they wouldn't be separated. African Americans were kept away from most of ‘white’ societies events or happenings. Common places such as schools, churches, restaurants, and grocery stores were forbidden for blacks to attend alongside whites. The African American community in To Kill A Mockingbird relates
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The white people sat on the courtroom floor and the black people sat in the balcony , “The colored Balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.” Despite the fact Tom Robinson is innocent of the crime he was convicted of , he was still sentenced guilty because of his skin color. Atticus Finch is one of few men in Maycomb who view it this way, so throughout the story he tries to overcome the racism. During the trial Dill comes to realization that there is evil in the town of Maycomb and it affected him roughly. In the middle of the trial Scout, Dill, and Jem left the courtroom and ran into Raymond Dolphus, a white man who married a black woman and has mixed children. Mr. Raymond reveals that he pretends to be an alcoholic by carrying around a paper bag with a bottle of Coca-Cola inside as an excuse for his choice to marry a black woman. It showed that interracial relationships were not accepted and the races weren’t supposed to mix. They excused Raymond because everyone thought he was just an
The white people sat on the courtroom floor and the black people sat in the balcony , “The colored Balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.” Despite the fact Tom Robinson is innocent of the crime he was convicted of , he was still sentenced guilty because of his skin color. Atticus Finch is one of few men in Maycomb who view it this way, so throughout the story he tries to overcome the racism. During the trial Dill comes to realization that there is evil in the town of Maycomb and it affected him roughly. In the middle of the trial Scout, Dill, and Jem left the courtroom and ran into Raymond Dolphus, a white man who married a black woman and has mixed children. Mr. Raymond reveals that he pretends to be an alcoholic by carrying around a paper bag with a bottle of Coca-Cola inside as an excuse for his choice to marry a black woman. It showed that interracial relationships were not accepted and the races weren’t supposed to mix. They excused Raymond because everyone thought he was just an