To Kill A Mocking Bird/ MAycomb Society/A grade essay

example of a share cropping black. Other important relevances include facts like slavery, segregation, civil rights movement.
             Focusing more onto the question and after closely evaluating the book, I think that the Maycomb society is not only segregated between the white and the black community but it is divided amongst itself into different cast status divisions. 'There's four kind of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the damp and the Negroes' (Jem, ch.23), the quote reference here sums up my comment and clearly explains us that the society was divided into categories like the Ewells, Cunninghams, the educated middle cast and the most neglected cast, the Negroes.
             After slavery was abolished in the ______ in both, the north and south, unfortunately the result was excruciating for the black community. They were goaled by the 'Jim Crow' segregation law, this meant that the blacks were not allowed to do any activity on white property or any place where the white community commenced their activities e.g. blacks were not allowed to marry white people. This fact has some relevance with the trial of Tom Robinson as Atticus says 'she (Mayella Ewell) was white, and she tempted a Negro, she did something that in our society is unspeakable'; this quote is from Atticus defending Tom in the trial, gives evidence that the segregation was active between the white community and the Negroes.
             Racism was an open and obvious issue in Maycomb society; overall the white community hated Negroes, because they were not able to accept the cultural and traditional background the Negroes hailed from. The white community judged the black community by the skin color, not by the content of their character. 'They did manage to go to schools; the standard of education was...

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