To Kill a Mocking Bird Report

‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Essay

What Do You Think About the Presentation of The Black Characters In To Kill A Mockingbird?

The presentation of the black characters in ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ is an important role of the text.

In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Harper Lee shows the black community as an

honest, kind group of people, with very positive attitudes. Lula is the only black character in the novel with a negative attitude, her attitude shows when she protests about Cal bringing Scout and Jem into the black’s church, ‘You ain’t got no business bringing, white chullin here’ she snapped at Cal. It is as if Harper Lee wants to make the reader aware of the injustice suffered by the black community and the prejudice they endured.

At afternoon tea, the ladies talked about ‘the poor people in Africa’ but they wouldn’t help black people in their own town. This is a perfect example of the hypocrisy of Maycomb. When they talk about the Africans they refer to them ……. But the Robinson’s are seen as outcasts……. The black community help each other, they had a collection at the church for Mrs Robinson.

The whole basis of racial prejudice is the whites saying that because their neighbours are black they are less human. The blacks are treated like ‘scapegoats’ and are punished because they resemble the evil inside the white people. The more kind and good the Negro is the more he is punished. This is seen all the way through the novel. Lula who seems to be just as bitter as the whites and accepts the way the white people treat her is not punished at all. This is shown by the way she speaks to Cal about the church ‘They got their church, we got ours’, because she is like