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What about the justice system in To Kill A Mockingbird?
I have a MAJOR paper due in a week, and I haven't found the time to finish To Kill A Mockingbird. I need to know how is justice shown in the book and how justice plays out in the deep south according to To Kill A Mockingbird. I would appreciate it if you could add quotes.. Thank you.
Tom Robinson is unfairly incarcerated based on accusations made by Bob Ewell. Bob Ewell claims that Tom raped his daughter, when in truth, he abused her. During that time in history, negroes were discriminated against profusely. Atticus provides enough evidence to eliminate any thought of Tom actually commiting the crime, and shows that Bob Ewell had to have done the wrong. The jury acts not on the evidence, but on the popular prejudices, and they choose to incarcerate Tom, and place him on death row. The significant part of this jury ruling, however, was that in a case which would normally take just minutes to resolve, a decision was not made until several hours later. Tom then loses hope, although an appeal would soon be filed, the damage done by failure in the system had already occurred. Tom practically commits suicide. This is the way it works most of the time in the south during the 30's.
oh, and Jem didnt kill Bob Ewell, Boo Radley did, but just to protect Jem and Scout.
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The Catcher in the Rye. To Kill a Mockingbird. Twilight. These are but a few books whose covers adorn the door of the Fairfield Public Library 's teen section this week as part of "Banned Books Week," an annual event which celebrates the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
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Theme from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Elmer Bernstein)
Death, Dating, and Crazy Shut-Ins: Southern Gothic Writing in “A Rose for Emily” and To Kill a Mockingbird
Southern Gothic is an American subgenre of the Gothic style, which is probably most familiar to you from the Brontë sisters of Victorian England. (No, we’re not talking Hot Topic here.) Like its European progenitor, the Southern Gothic style relies heavily on the supernatural – only with less “O, Heathcliffe!” and more “Oh no, racism!” (Unlike Gothic novels, Southern Gothic novels are more interested in uncovering social crimes and injustices than being gloomy for gloomy’s sake.) Elements of the grotesque are also common to both genres, but can take the form of actual bodily gore or just extremely flawed characters that are somehow tolerable enough to remain interesting. (See also: “O, Heathcliffe!”)
William Faulkner is known to have been especially good with the Southern Gothic style, and many American children read his eerie and disgusting “A Rose for Emily” as early as junior high school. This short story, which starts with a funeral and ends with the discovery of a decades-old corpse, reminisces on the life of Miss Emily Grierson, the recently deceased town spinster. As it turns out, her dad was a bit overbearing, and though we don’t know if there was any abuse involved, let’s just say she didn’t exactly get to break her curfew until she was about 35. When the old man finally meets his maker, Emily refuses to admit he is dead or leave the house for three days – which wouldn’t be so creepy if his decaying body weren’t still in it.
The even creepier part, however, is that this isn’t the same corpse that turns up in Emily’s house at the end of the book; that one belonged to her once and short-term boyfriend, who wined her, dined her, and tried to bail on her a few years after her dad died. Boy did he pick the wrong woman. While Emily is clearly demented, her dad’s mistreatment and the resulting psychological damage nevertheless make her a sympathetic character. So sympathetic, in fact, that the townspeople help cover the murder by spreading lime around her house when it starts to smell. (WON’T you BE my NEIGH-BOR!) So let’s recap just how “A Rose for Emily” stacks up as a Southern Gothic novel. Death? Check. Injustice? Check. The grotesque? Double check. A scary shut-in with a mysterious past in a seemingly haunted house? Checkmate.
Now that we’ve got a sense of what the genre’s all about, let’s do a little comparison. One of America’s most widely-read and beloved Southern Gothic novels is To Kill a Mockingbird, which chronicles the timid childhood interactions of Scout and Jem Finch with the local social outcast, Boo Radley. This book may not strike you as particularly gothic, especially if you grew up wanting to befriend Jem and Scout (and possibly even Boo), or to have Atticus for a dad, but technically speaking, it fits. Let’s take a look at those criteria again.
- The supernatural. Okay, so Mockingbird isn’t exactly supernatural, but narrated through the eyes of a terrified six-year old, it might as well be. Scary guy locked in his house for decades because he probably stabbed his dad in the leg with scissors? It ain’t natural, that’s for sure. The only thing keeping Boo from becoming a full-blown Emily Grierson is the fact that he isn’t hiding any bodies – that we know of.
- Injustice. Boy howdy! Almost every character in the novel is at least somewhat racist, including our lovable narrator from time to time. The plot centers around the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man who is wrongly accused – and ultimately convicted – of raping a white woman – who concocted the story to hide her crush on Tom from an abusive father. When Tom tries to escape prison, he is shot no less than seventeen times. You know, just in case.
- The grotesque. While To Kill a Mockingbird isn’t gory, some of its characters can be downright foul. Mrs. Dubose is a great example of a grotesque character; she’s a humorless old bigot with an unnecessarily possessive attitude toward her camellias, but since we later find out she’s trying to kick a nasty morphine addiction, we end up feeling kind of bad for her. Sometimes, a drug habit or an overbearing father is all it takes.
So while the two stories may seem very different at first glance, they share a particular combination of gothic elements that allows them to unglamorously explore social and cultural issues of the South – whether they be racism and bigotry or simply the outdatedness of the “Southern Belle” approach to dating. You decide which is scarier.
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