English 10-1 To Kill a Mockingbird: Study Guide Antagonist: The main antagonist in this novel is Bob Ewell‚ he represents the darkness and evil in the town of Maycomb‚ and causes the death of an innocent man. After this‚ he tries to find and hurt Scout and Jem as he is too cowardly to attack Atticus directly. His character is essentially a direct contrast to Atticus’s character‚ mean and evil‚ the epitome of the darkness in Racism. The character Bob Ewell stands in opposition to Atticus primarily
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a time of great turmoil. US was still recovering from the war‚ there was the Watts Riots‚ the North East blackout and before just the year before that‚ on July 2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However‚ the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement‚ to sum up was when blacks marched out to Edmund Pettus
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to come‚ we as human beings let others influence the way we and our society perceive ourselves and quite possibly our cultural group as a whole. In Richard Wright’s‚ “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow‚” he uses a series of rhetorical devices to introduce the issue of race‚ as well as to show the effect Jim Crow laws had on African Americans. His focus on these devices allows us to see just how powerful others’ ideas and actions influenced African Americans to believe they were inferior in every way possible
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There were many social and political changes experienced by African-Americans in Louisiana from Reconstruction through the Jim Crow Era that violated African-Americans’ rights as citizens of the United states. A major social change was segregation between the African-Americans and the white Louisianians. This violated African-Americans’ rights by unfair and unjust treatment. While Louisiana being a portion of the “Solid South”‚ the white southerners were attached to their former ways. This meant
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mistreatment of the African Americans still continued. With laws like The Jim Crow Laws mandating separation of the races in all aspects of life in the south being in the 1890s made life unbearably hard for people of color. Waterfountatins‚ restaurants‚ theaters‚ restrooms‚ doors‚ buses‚ trains‚ workplaces‚ and other public facilities were designated with “White Only” and “Colored” signs. These laws fueled racial discrimination. These types of laws existed until the 1960s when the Civil Rights Movement
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reconstruction and the western expansion was going on.to act. The fact that blacks had limited access to do anything later down the road “only a few blacks even served in Congress in the 1880s and 1890s” (pg.523). This was the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws. They also had a Poll Tax Liberty Test basically this test was rigged‚ which made it unfair to blacks. Therefore “at the end of the reconstruction in 1900 African- Americans owned only a small percent of land” (pg. 522). By 1940 only about three
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book‚ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness shatters this dominantly held ideology. Alexander‚ who for many years worked as a civil rights lawyer‚ uses her vast experience and knowledge concerning the criminal justice system to craft a meticulously researched argument that “colorblindness” is this generation’s most important civil rights issue. As the title indicates‚ she makes the bold claim that mass incarceration is the 21st century version of Jim Crow. This era in
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In the New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander‚ Alexander reminds us of the retrospect of what we once knew‚ the grating truth hidden behind the land of freedom‚ racial prejudice towards the colored. Although today‚ America guarantees liberal rights to every individual of color. Alexander argues that the cateism still lingers beyond the lines of our society. Michelle supports her argument through the rebirth of the Old Jim Crow‚ War on Drugs and the racial caste system. Alexander believes that
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Realism in Jim Grimsley’s Winter Birds When thinking of a work of fiction‚ one would most likely consider the unrealistic story or the happy ending. Additionally‚ most wouldn’t think of “the harsh realities of everyday life” (Feldman‚ 485) like domestic violence and alcoholism. This is because nowadays‚ most books aren’t realist novels. A realist novel is a fictional book that focuses more on character analysis rather than plot‚ and describes things as they really are‚ with no excess details. One
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“The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch” In “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch” Richard Wright explains how the oppression and violence of the white are what lead to a shift in morals in the black community (Wright 21). There was constant fear of death that the blacks felt like they were under; they became more and more accustomed to that abusive treatment. It seems that Wright used a series of vignettes‚ while mostly consisting of narration of events
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