The Theme Of Scouting For The Truth In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Scouting for the Truth in To Kill a Mockingbird Have you treated someone differently because of who they are or what they looked like? Well in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been presented these actions with a list of events of real-life situations. The central theme of her novel is that people should not be judged according to what they look like no matter the circumstance. While instead, people should be judged upon their actions and behaviors, without the exception of what they do or don’t have. They shouldn’t be judged upon the color of their skin. Instead, we should all be capable to value all lives and how everyone is created equally. This theme relates to the Golden Rule because you should respect others and treat
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We live in a very superficial society. It is very easy to fall into the trap of looking only at the surface of people, things, and ideas without taking the slightest time and effort to delve deeper into them. The metaphor, “Don’t judge a Book by its Cover” resembles many situations in …show more content…
For instance, The Tom Robinson trial. Mr. Glimmer during the preliminary had said, “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” (Lee 264). He was surprised because usually, the colored folk can’t be remotely close to feeling sorry for a white person since white people are considered “superior.” During the suspenseful trial, Atticus indeed proved that Tom Robinson was innocent with the amount of evidence he gathered. Such like the bruises on Mayella’s face was on her right side which means that a person who’s left-handed had to be capable of that crime but Tom Robinson couldn’t use his left arm due to an accident when he was younger. Sadly, his skin color prevented the jury from believing nor accepting Tom’s words over a white man. Harper Lee is illustrating how racism was widespread in the south and even in the Justice System, a place that should remain fair and equal no matter the appearance of a human
We live in a very superficial society. It is very easy to fall into the trap of looking only at the surface of people, things, and ideas without taking the slightest time and effort to delve deeper into them. The metaphor, “Don’t judge a Book by its Cover” resembles many situations in …show more content…
For instance, The Tom Robinson trial. Mr. Glimmer during the preliminary had said, “You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?” (Lee 264). He was surprised because usually, the colored folk can’t be remotely close to feeling sorry for a white person since white people are considered “superior.” During the suspenseful trial, Atticus indeed proved that Tom Robinson was innocent with the amount of evidence he gathered. Such like the bruises on Mayella’s face was on her right side which means that a person who’s left-handed had to be capable of that crime but Tom Robinson couldn’t use his left arm due to an accident when he was younger. Sadly, his skin color prevented the jury from believing nor accepting Tom’s words over a white man. Harper Lee is illustrating how racism was widespread in the south and even in the Justice System, a place that should remain fair and equal no matter the appearance of a human