Provincialism In To Kill A Mockingbird

CRT #1 Perspective is the way in which we see the world, it is how we perceive the issues of our world based on the moments we have experienced throughout our lives. It is these experiences that have shaped what we think and how we feel, it forms the beliefs people have. In the Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee demonstrates the significance that one’s perspective plays on affecting personal beliefs. She demonstrates this by exploring the lives and points of view of The Ewells, The children, and the common people of Maycomb.

Imagine living during a time where you would be discriminated against and divided just because the color of your skin. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a black man named Tom Robinson was falsely accused of having raped a white woman and was not given a fair trial. The towns hatred towards black people have caused a prejudice to occur against him. The jury was made up of only white males who are biased against black people due to this prejudice. Tom has good morals, is noble, and a good-hearted human being.

“To Kill A Mockingbird” is a classic novel of modern American literature that was published in 1960. Author Harper Lee loosely based the plot and characters of the story on her childhood. Bob Ewell, the main antagonist of the novel, is a drunken white man who lives off of welfare. He and his family are the eyesore of Maycomb. In “To Kill A Mockingbird”

-Summary for Ch. 11-15 (AT LEAST FOUR SENTENCES): Jem messed up Mrs. Dubose’s camellia and he had to read to her for a long time. Also Jem’s attitude turned for the better and he has been a good kid for a while now. Aunt Alexandra has come out of nowhere while Uncle Jimmy stays back at the landing. Jem and Scout find Dill hiding somewhere.

Tom Robinson is a mockingbird in that he doesn't do one thing wrong. All he does is provide help to the people he interacts with. That is exactly how he got in trouble. Tom Robinson was helping Mayella with some chores. He was humming a melody and when he chopped up the dresser drawers.

I am questioning why the Ewell family would lie. Bob lied because he wants Tom Robinson, a kind African American man, to be blamed for his crimes instead of him. Bob Ewell lied in court for these three main reasons. He was the one who actually beat and raped his daughter Mayella. He is known as the town drunk and we he has too much to drunk he gets angry and very violent.

Discrimination is shown throughout To Kill A Mockingbird in numerous ways. Racism and prejudice are shown when the jury makes the ruling to convict Tom Robinson as guilty, despite all of the evidence to prove his innocence; Scout is known for being a tomboy. The lessons about discrimination that Scout learns throughout the novel are applicable to all types of prejudice, Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem Finch, is judged for defending Tom Robinson, an innocent man accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a low class teenage girl. Since most of the community is racist, Tom Robinson’s case is very hard for Atticus to defend. They do not believe a white man should be defending a black man.

How does it feel to live in a world where the amount of melanin in your skin automatically decreases the value of a person? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch takes on a case where the amount of melanin in your skin matters to the jury, not the truth. With Scout Finch as our narrator, we learn the important elements of the before and after occurrences before the trial and each lesson the Finch children learn in between. Mark Twain’s article, Moral Cowardice expounds in the one daring man that has enough courage to do what right. In Andrew Cockburn’s article, 21st Century Slaves, sex-trafficking is addressed and tells the story of how a girl became a debt slave.

In society today there are those that are pushed out of the crowd because of what they look like, how they act, and what others say to be true about them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that unselfish, kind hearted people can experience prejudice from others. Always wanting to be the better person, Atticus Finch is like the mockingbird when taking the responsibility of defending Tom Robinson, who is a black man. Once Atticus gets the news that he will be defending Tom Robinson, who is accused of rape, he is very stressed until the end of the trial. Harper Lee shows this when she says, “It’s this Tom Robinson case that’s worrying him to death...”

Bob Ewell, is Mayella’s father, the villain of the novel and most figures that struts hatred to the African Americans. Bob Ewell has no money, no education, he wants his life to be better, and he pours his anger on whoever is weaker than him. He bashes his daughter when he discovered her intentions towards Tom Robinson; he also tried to hurt Scout and Jem. "I see that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella!" (84)

Moral dilemma of characters in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird The way people handle moral dilemmas are often different. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee show various moral dilemmas and how different characters deal with it. Scout chose to be different in handling with her moral dilemma and change for the better while Mayella does not change and does wrong.

Racism Come to humans naturally we all judge our surroundings and the people living in it which means our opinions are based our views and values. The values gradually leads us to be biased towards some people. The novel To Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the article “Jim Crow Policing” by Bob Herbert both inform readers about the life of colored folks now and during the great depression. They also both inform the readers how no one cared about the way they treated colored people or if they were hurting their feelings. Racism can either be embedded in a man’s heart or can be enforced by law.