Community in to Kill a Mockingbird

Diego Pascual

Mr. McNamee

English Period 4

December 18, 2012

Community in To Kill A Mockingbird

Community in To Kill A Mockingbird is different from our community in many ways. Many people Believe that a community should be like all the other community's, nice and peaceful. The point is, is that the community back then was different then it is today. Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is basically a lesson about how the community's treated each other. To understand the lesson in To Kill A Mockingbird, you have to understand what the author is trying to tell you.

The people in To Kill A Mockingbird think that there is groups of community's, Such as the towns people, black community, and the dirt poor community. People insist that the money and skin color should be separated into various groups depending on the money and skin color. The communities don't really agree with each other because their different.

The black community in To Kill A Mockingbird treated each other with respect, because they learned to get along. Now the black community always cared from one another, the black's had their own community obviously; they never had things that the whites had. The black's were treated different because of their skin color; they didn't have the same rights as the whites did. The blacks didn't really care what the whites said about them, they just ignored them.

"It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and each other because they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language." (Page 126)

The town's people in To Kill A Mockingbird really respected each other because they had no reason to fight. The whites always respected each other unless something occurred with a black person. The whites didn't like a black person in their part of the community, When ever a white man would be convicted of something he would not get in trouble because he was white. When black and whites would get into a fight the blacks would get arrested because of their skin color. Whites had the most rights because whites were basically the kings of everyone.

When Tom Robinson (a black man) was convicted of rapping a white woman, Atticus (Scout's father) was Tom's lawyer. Atticus was called many names because he was Tom Robinsons' lawyer, no white person likes when another white person trying to free a black man. Tom Robinson was guilty because of his skin color and