To+Kill+a+Mockingbird+Essay

In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee about how racism can hypnotize the minds of everybody around. Lee shows how people are treated differently just by the way there skin color is presented, how we fear those we have never met and how hatred and fear have the same consequences.

The way that Maycomb County treats Tom Robinson is evil and diluted. “//Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard. Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I aint ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.”// Pg. 208. Atticus knows he’s going to lose his case even though he hasn’t gone to court yet. It’s because he is defending a black man and Atticus knows his kids and the people he cares about with suffer for his decision in taking this case, he knows nobody will believe Tom over Bob Ewell.

Scout, Dill and Jem describes Boo Radley as a monster. Boo has never been out of his house. Dill says Boo eats squirrels and only goes out at night, looks in people’s windows when there sleeping and has razor sharp teeth with blood dripping down his chin. “//People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.”// Pg. 9. The people in Maycomb County hate Boo Radley but they knew nothing about him. When Scout first comes face to face with Boo she treats him like her best friend and walks him home. Scout realizes that Boo is just a man that doesn’t really like to go outside, likes to leave treats and toys for kids in trees and scout finds out that Boo saved her life. Children vs. Adults and the concept of rights and wrongs. “//This was as much as I heard of Mr. Gilmer’s cross-ex-animation, because Jem made me take Dill out. For some reason Dill had started crying and couldn’t stop; quietly at first, then his sobs were heard be several people in the balcony Jem said if I didn’t go with him he’d make me, and Reverend Sykes said I’d better go, so I went.”// Pg. 198. It seems like kids understand when things are going bad better than adults. Kids can be running the streets because there not racist. They don’t understand what racism yet so they have a better judgment then adults.

In conclusion all of the adults in Maycomb County or in the south are racist bastards. If everybody was blind or didn’t care about skin color. Then an innocent man wouldn’t have died, Scout wouldn’t have been ambushed and Jem wouldn’t have gotten his arm busted. Being racist is a horrible and unnecessary thing.