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Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee has many powerful characters that have been greatly affected by the prejudice system back in the 1930s. Tom Robinson, Dolphus Raymond, and Boo Radley are all characters from this novel who have had biased accusations made against them. Tom Robinson, a twenty-five year old black man with a family of his own, was falsely accused of raping nineteen year old Mayella Ewell. Dolphus Raymond is a white man who is married to a black woman and is profoundly judged for his decisions. Boo Radley is a very mysterious character in this book, he has a very parochial outlook on things as he has hardly ever left his home. This gives him a very eerie outlook to all his neighbors and town members. Tom Robinson is an industrious man who is willing to help his community to the best of his abilities. In a childhood accident Robinson got his left hand stuck in a cotton gin and that arm has been futile ever …show more content…

As expected there was a very bad backlash from the town, but Raymond had a cover story. He lets the town people think that he is a bad alcoholic, he drinks Coca Cola that is covered in paper bags to fool people. Scout remembers this “Mr. Dolphus Raymond seemed to be so doing: two yellow drugstore straws ran from his mouth to the depths of a brown paper bag.” (Lee 214) Many people think that he is a drunk and is making taboo decisions but in reality he knows what he is doing. He is trying to give the townspeople an excuse for marrying a black woman. There is a movie called Loving, it is about an interracial couple who are in love. They are poorly treated because the color of their skin. The couple were not allowed to get married and eventually were thrown in jail. The couple pursued litigation to change the unjust law . This shows similarities between the troubles interracial couples had back in the

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