To Kill A Mockingbird: Cruelty Against Blacks, Lawyers And The Poor

Part I of Essay
To Kill A Mockingbird “takes readers to the roots of human behavior” (Lee). It portrays how unkind people of Maycomb County could be. It shows a time when being different made life more difficult than it had to be. It was a time when people did not accept difference ....

Part II of Essay
.... the courtroom, the white man’s word is taken over the black man’s word” (Lee 172). The white woman’s father said that “some nigger’d raped his girl” (Lee 169). The black man is punished for a crime that he did not commit because of his race. In the novel, racial words are used often. Words such as “nigger” and “negroe”. It wasn’t known for white folks and black folks to be together unless it was work associated. If it was seen, people would say, “why’s he sittin’ with the colored folks?” (Lee 163). To Kill A Mockingbird also show ....