“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it” says Atticus.(Lee, 30) In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, racism is shown as a big part through the eyes of a modest little girl named Scout. Scout learns numerous things by trying to learn something from another person’s perspective. She tries to think of things that could have happened if racism didn’t exists and how people would react and treat each other.
Throughout the years there has been much of conflict and segregation among the people, but over the century people have started to cooperate with each other. This novel takes place in during a time period were there was segregation between races existed. Scout a young innocent, intelligent, girl has started to grow and is describing much of the racism that she sees in …show more content…
The individuals of the county hated the black community so bad, that if anyone became involved, even the finch family would be hated by the county. The people hated that one of their kind of person was supporting the other race. Also, the children that were less educated in school would verbally be mean to Scout and Jem. Scout did not like this because the kids didn’t know what they were talking about so she physical hurt them, even though her father said no. But what really is sad when one of your own family member is being rude and mean, like Scout’s cousin. Hatred always causes harm. In to Kill a Mockingbird, racism is reoccurring because it takes places in many of the events. Racism affects always in a negative way, and to everyone that lived in Maycomb County. It eventually hurt Scout, Jem, and Mr. Raymond but it eventually killed Tom Robinson. Racism is going to continue, but so sad how people can’t stop themselves from judging