Harper Lee is a well known and acclaimed author for her very popular work, To Kill A Mockingbird. This story incorporates some very deep subjects in with its plot. One of those is racism, a routine problem exercised in the novel. Through her book, Harper Lee addresses the matter of racism through and by the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird. She does this first by the example of Tom Robinson, a character in this story. Tom was a humble black man who would never even dream of harming a white woman. He did his work without lament, but he did feel sorry for a certain white woman. Yet, for his compassion, he lost his life. In the text, Mayella Ewell, a white woman who is very impoverished makes an advance on Tom, a black man. She told him
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She kissed a black man, tempted a Negro. Mayella recollects what she has done and decides she needs to cover up what happened. When Bob Ewell, her father, discloses his daughter kissed a black man, he beats Mayella for her stupidity and calls for the sheriff. Bob claims that Tom raped his daughter to cover up and take him, along with his daughter's shame, away. It was a white man's word against a black's. Of course, the jury was comprised of all white men. It appeared that the verdict of the case had been predetermined as soon as Tom Robinson traipsed inside the Ewell home. Tom was found guilty and hauled to jail, where when trying to escape, he was shot. He was shot seventeen times. Tom is a perfect of exhibiting racism in this story. He was a humane, modest, and compassionate man, but he had black skin. The people did …show more content…
He does not provide for his children and is not a great father figure. In the story, Bob is very against black people, as it is evident from the trial. He desired for Tom to suffer because he was colored. He often called black folks nasty names and anyone who was associated with them, he despised. This perfectly shows how Harper Lee was trying to bring the social issue of racism to light. She created a character like Bob to illustrate to the reader the hostility and hate that whites had against blacks. She also used Bob to exemplify how whites always won or were considered better than blacks just because of color, as in the trial outcome. This is a clear representation of racism and displays how Harper Lee intended to address it through Mr. Ewell and his actions towards the black
She kissed a black man, tempted a Negro. Mayella recollects what she has done and decides she needs to cover up what happened. When Bob Ewell, her father, discloses his daughter kissed a black man, he beats Mayella for her stupidity and calls for the sheriff. Bob claims that Tom raped his daughter to cover up and take him, along with his daughter's shame, away. It was a white man's word against a black's. Of course, the jury was comprised of all white men. It appeared that the verdict of the case had been predetermined as soon as Tom Robinson traipsed inside the Ewell home. Tom was found guilty and hauled to jail, where when trying to escape, he was shot. He was shot seventeen times. Tom is a perfect of exhibiting racism in this story. He was a humane, modest, and compassionate man, but he had black skin. The people did …show more content…
He does not provide for his children and is not a great father figure. In the story, Bob is very against black people, as it is evident from the trial. He desired for Tom to suffer because he was colored. He often called black folks nasty names and anyone who was associated with them, he despised. This perfectly shows how Harper Lee was trying to bring the social issue of racism to light. She created a character like Bob to illustrate to the reader the hostility and hate that whites had against blacks. She also used Bob to exemplify how whites always won or were considered better than blacks just because of color, as in the trial outcome. This is a clear representation of racism and displays how Harper Lee intended to address it through Mr. Ewell and his actions towards the black