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Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird - Research Paper

Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Racism is a vastly spreading disease in this world and Maycomb County has played a part in this infectious disease. It can bring misery, stress and pressure to a person's life but sometimes it can go as far as to causing death to a person. People in "to kill a Mocking bird" are reflected are a Mockingbird because of the way they act or the way they are acted against.

One of the most obvious victims of racism is Tom Robinson. From the book we can tell that Tom Robinson is a hard working African American man and is often helpful to others. He has faced many difficulties in his life one of which was getting his arm stuck in a cotton gin, all of his muscles were strained, and couldn't move ...

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next thing I know she - she'd grabbed me around the legs, grabbed me around th' legs, Mr. finch" (ch 19 pg 213)

In Maycomb itself racism was rife, and the case of Tom Robinson proves this. For Tom Robinson being a Negro meant that the minute Maybella asked Tom for help he was in trouble. In the time a black man was not allowed to say no to a white person, if they did it meant persecution. As soon as Tom was attacked by Maybella he could not do anything because if he was to harm Maybella in any way he would have been persecuted.

" I did not understand the subtlety of tom's predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under any circumstances and expect to live long, so he took the first opportunity to run- a sure sign of guilt" (ch 19 pg 15)

Tom Robinson tried to escape and was shot 17 times. This clearly shows that the white guard showed racist behaviour towards Tom Robinson because it only takes 1-2 bullets to kill a person meaning there were 15 unnecessary ...

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Added: 8/13/2013 02:36:11 AM
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