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The Impact of Bigotry on the Altercations in To Kill a MockingbirdIn the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the setting impacted on most of the actions taken by the major characters. Specifically, the altercations between the major characters were a direct result of the beliefs held by the people in the South during the 1930's. We see that this holds true in real life as well. Wherever people live, their setting influences most of the actions they make and how they act towards other people. One place where the setting has most impacted on people is down South. In the South during the 1930's the setting impacted on everyone who lived there. According to Johnson, white people down south loathed and were very resentful of the colored people. They thought of the black race as God's curse. [20-21] Johnson gives us an excellent illustration of how everything was segregated in the Southern society. If white people were getting onto a bus, they would have to let them get on first. In addition, if there were only one seat left on the bus, the black person would have to get up and give it to the white person. That problem rarely arose because they also had a separate section of the bus where blacks had to sit. If th
[207-211] Even though they may have lost the case, it was a baby step forward for the colored people because it took the jury a long time before they could find a verdict. Atticus was sitting in front of the door reading a book despite all of the bugs that were bothering him. The white man's water fountain was filtered and clean, however the black person's fountain would shoot out brown dirty water that was not sanitary in the least. They asked him if he could move aside so they could go in there and lynch Tom Robinson. No matter how much you knew that a black man did not do something, he would always be guilty simply because you could never take a black man's word over a white man's word. In Atticus' closing statement he states that there is no corroborative evidence to support the case, and that Mayella lied to hide her own guilt of having tried to seduce Tom Robinson. He talks about how a young Negro boy was falsely accused of rape just because he was black. Then Atticus makes a powerful statement and says, "But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. Uncle Jack asks Scout what did he say about Atticus and she says, "A nigger-lover. [84-85] Johnson also tells us that African-American women only worked as maids, cooks, or nurses in the houses of whites. Atticus then questioned the sheriff and asked him which eye had she gotten hit in. Sullivan also admired how the racism was presented in the novel. You can see that Mayella's tearful outbursts and her frequent angry and contradictory statements show us that she is lying and trying to cover up the real evidence. They had separate waiting rooms in all offices and bus and train stations.
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