TKAM:Racism
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- Created on: 23-04-16 11:18
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Characters that display racism:
- Mrs Dubose
- The Sheriff
- Aunt Alexandra
- Cousin Francis
- The Ewells
- Mr Cunningham
- The preponderance of Maycomb society
Other ways racism is portrayed
- Jury's verdict
- Instituational racism and segregation of the court room
- Day of the trial
Mrs Dubose:
Chapter 11: pg 105-118
'Your father's no better than the ******* and trash he works for'
- Frightens kids with unkind remarks
- Shows how a racist mindset is especially enforced within the older generation
- Atticus tries to cool the children's indignation at hearing their father being called names
- Such language reflects badly on the person using it, rather that the person it is directed at which is difficult for the kids to learn
The Sheriff:
'he hadn't the heart to put him in the jail along side Negroes'
- After Boo suspected of stabbing rather with a pair of scissors
- Institutional racism
- Displays how even the law can have an element of racism in it
Aunt Alexandra:
pg 132
'Put my bag in the front bedroom Calpurnia' was the first thing Aunt Alexandra said
- Imperitives are used
pg 142
'You've got to face it sooner of later and it might as well be tonight. We dont need her now'
- Pursasive language
- Overall, Aunt Alexandra appears to be conforming to the racist idologies of Maycomb society
- She is presented as bossy and controlling of Calpurnia when she first arrives
- She is a domeneering character
- She treats Cal like a servant and dismisses her as anything other than this
- She is enforcing her ideals on the children which stem from the racist attitudes of society at this time
- Lee delibrerately uses this racist remark to introudce Alexandra into the household in order to forershadow how she will attempt to implament this mindset on Jem and Scout
- She is at odds with Atticus about the type of things he is teaching the children
- Scout never understands her Aunt's preoccupation with family
- However, she mellows after the trial when she sees what a straub the events are placing on her brother
- Scout increases her respect for her as a result of this
- How quick Aunt Alexandra is to enforce her own ideals in her brother's household
- Demonstartes extent of prejudice and intolerance
- Scout's reaction to aunt Alexandra doing this emphasises her youth and loyalty
- Les's tone in the chpter gently ridicules and mocks Alex's attitudes
- Maycomb societal views championed by Alex - caste systemAtticus values Calpurnia as an individual, not as a black person. The word 'tried' evidences Calpurnia's effort in bringing the children up the right way.
Cousin Francis:
pg 89
'I guess it aint your fault if Uncle Atticus is a ******-lover besides, but I'm here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the family'
At a safe distance he called 'He's nothing but a ******-lover!'
- The use of the derrogratory term '******' in a young child's voacbulary highlights the extent of prejudice within society
- Pseudohistorical nature of the novel
- Probably doesn't fully understand the horror of the word
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