Presentation of Black Characters in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee :: Free Essay Writer

Presentation of Black Characters in To Kill a mocker by Harper LeeTo kill a Mockingbird is a story by Harper Lee. It is about RacialSegregation and the supernatural, it is based in a time and in a placethat was very racist, where people put White trash above good ingloriouspeople. It is based in Maycomb, (It is a small town created by Harperlee the author of the book. In the book it describes the town as smalland old, and it says the day seems more than 24 hours becauseeverything moves slower there. This town is actually based on theauthors hometown, Monroeville, Alabama.) Alabama, in the 1930s. Thisessay will discuss to you about all the main blackness characters in ToKill a Mockingbird and how they are presented in this story, it willbe focusing mainly on the following black characters Tom Robinson(the mankind who is on trial in this story.), Calpurnia and ReverendSykes. I will also talk about how the book was based in thedepression, and how in that time, the blacks were good law-abidingpeople, but yet they were still treated as second class citizens.In the story Calpurnia or Cal is presented as a very intelligentblack person, she is educated (she can read) for one, and she is agood person at heart as well, and also she has Atticuss respect. Andalso as we see in the book she leads an almost double life when sheis among the Finch family and other white people she speaks properEnglish, but when she is among her own people she speaks using a lotof consume and cuts words short. for example sure enough, she says shonuf. She is also the mother of Zeebo a full grown man who is marriedand reads out the sermons at church. She also acts as a motherlyfigure in (as she is always there she cooks for the Finch family.)Scouts life and they have a love-hate relationship, until scoutstarts school, and then it eases a little. In an assembly line with AuntAlexandra, Atticus also insists that Calpurnia is part of the family.Also in the story is Tom Robinson he is presente d as a good personwith a nice heart, he is a sharecropper on a cotton farm, and each dayon his way home he passes the Ewell household, I believe he is alsobrave because he accepted his fate all human beings must die sooneror later, not many people I know would accept that. He also has his