Examples Of Isolation In To Kill A Mockingbird

“There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes” (Lee 226). Throughout the story of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the citizens of Maycomb to show the diversity and isolation of specific groups or individual people. In the book, there are many different perspectives about people who have been shunned or isolated due to peoples views or opinions. There are also some people that try to break stereotypes and help these people fit in. Black or white, Finch or Ewell, everyone should be accepted no matter who they are. The method Harper Lee uses to explain the isolation is characterization. The reader first learns about the Ewells during Scouts early life. She first talks about them while explaining her first day at school. The first Ewell child encountered during the story is Burris Ewell. He is portrayed as a problem child just like

Through the entire story, they are seen as lesser beings to most of the town. Even the Finches, who are the most morally just and who strive for racial equality, have an African American working for them. Up to, and during the trial, Tom Robinson is portrayed as a horrible person who is guilty no matter the evidence. Because of his skin color, Tom Robinson was either going to be found innocent and therefore acquitted, or put to death. There wasn’t an in between, “Tom Robinson’s a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world’s going to say, ‘We think you’re guilty, but not very.’” (Lee 219) Even when the contradictory evidence points to him being innocent, he is found guilty. This is most likely due to the way people thought of people of African American descent. So in the end, Tom Robinson never stood a chance of winning. The jury had made its decision before the trial even started, all based on skin