How to Kill a Mocking BirdEssay title: How to Kill a Mocking BirdSummaryTo Kill a MockingbirdTo Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a story written written to show the importance of black people in the 1930s. It is a good story with a good point. The prime messages observed in this novel is that of racism, how the actions of a community, not just a parent, can affect a child, and how rumors and invalidated facts can destroy anyones reputation. Racism is mentioned throughout the second part of the novel. It is the prime and most mentioned part of this section of the novel.
There are many themes and symbols in this book. Scouts father, Atticus, tells Scout and Jem, “Id rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know youll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember its a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This passage is where she got the name for her book. During the 1950s in the small county of Maycomb, the mentality of most southern people reflected that of the nation. Most of the people were racist. In the novel, these ideas are explored through a young girl by the name of Scout. The readers see the events that occur through her eyes. The novel centers on the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb County, Tom Robinson is just a “sorry nigger,” who committed an unthinkable crime. Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture during that time. Like Boo Radley, Tom Robinson is characterized by what the people of Maycomb say about him. And after being accused of rape, many people see him as a beast.
In this novel Harper Lee uses a lot of symbolism that has to do with racism in the South at that time. The mockingbird is a symbol for two of the characters in this novel: Tom Robinson and Boo Radly. The mockingbird symbolizes these two characters because it does not have its own song. The blue Jay is loud and obnoxious: the mockingbird only sings other birds songs. Because the mockingbird does not sing its own song, we characterize it by what the other birds sing. We see the mockingbird through other birds. The mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley, since he is innocent, and would never harm anyone. He just stays inside because he does not want to face the corrupt and prejudice world outside.
[Cross-Reference to the “The Bitter, Angry Man” book by Stephen J. King](http://www.books.google.com/books?id=YZ5gTACA-AAJ&pg=PA09&dq=biting&src=typm
>What we are reading about in “The Bitter, Angry Man” is a story about racism in the South.
>What we are reading about in “The Bitter, Angry Man” is a story about racism in the South.
When a racist in his 40s comes to the country, he doesn’t mean to be racist in the usual sense of the word. At any rate, many white voters in the South want a candidate of their own who is going to take a stand for whites, against white men in the South, who are using segregation and other forms of discrimination to undermine and even to turn them against us. These whites, many of whom have had to endure discrimination, do not want one less than them with the support of this candidate. They want me to believe that I do not belong in the middle class. They do not have much experience to support the right of their entire families in the South. This is what scares many Republicans to vote for this candidate, many of whom believe that having me as the next president is not sufficient.
As a result, many people come to his campaign in droves, saying something like, “Boy, where is the last election where I will be remembered because of what I have said on race? !”
In all such campaigns, the campaign leaders will come from diverse backgrounds and backgrounds do not want to be perceived as racist. They believe that they are good white people who have stood up for themselves and are trying to move the country forward. In doing so, their candidate will show that he represents an alternative to those groups who are not in the upper middle class. For many of those who may choose to support a candidate that has racist views, this is what makes us vote for one.
[Cross-Reference to this essay by Thomas M. Dukes (the author of “The Color Wheel” and “Color In America”): When a racist in his 40s comes to the country, he doesn’t mean to be racist in the usual sense of the word. At any rate, many white voters in the South want a candidate of their own who is going to take a stand for whites, against white men in the South, who are using segregation and other forms of discrimination to undermine and even to turn them against us. These whites, many of whom have had to endure discrimination, do not