Out of the many themes in the book, the theme I'm going to talk about is
racism. I think racism is an important theme because it is used a lot in the story.
Since this book is also taken place in the south I think racism is a good topic for the
time and place.
Some examples of this is when Mayella calls Tom Robinson a nigger. Mayella refers to
Tom as a "N" word when she says "Come here nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for
me, I got a nickel for you." This shows that white people still refer to black people as
nigger, and negro which most white people only said back then. Also this book shows
racism by everyone siding with the white folks when Tom Robinson is convicted of rape
even though there is so much evidence to prove that he wasn't guilty. So now you know
that this book is based a lot of racism and you can tell that back then they didn't
care if you had evidence or not if you were black, you were hated.
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1 comment:
Yeah
It stands out in the book because it used throught the whole book. Many characters use it against Atticus. And I aso agree with you about Tom Robinson being black, Thats why he is blamed to rape Mayella, He only came to her house and helped her, not raped her. And your paragraph is well descriptive and totally correct.
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