RACISM IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

1456 WD

"If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?" (Lee, 259)

Harper Lee uses her novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' to accentuate the catastrophic nature of racism. Some troubling individuals or groups of people have felt powerful by exercising their dominance over another group claiming they are worthier, stronger, and smarter. The problem of racism has often been associated with the history of the United States of America. Slavery has been abandoned long ago, but for years black people were considered to be of lower class, their capabilities were denied, and