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Choice C: So far, is this a novel about race? Class? Gender? Coming of Age? Place? Select and defend your answer.


By what I have read so far; I think that this book judges alot about race. When we began to read the book Scout; who is narrating the book tells us whos white and whose black. All the white people live in a neighborhood unless your a Ewell. If your black you live in the other side of town. Theres alot of prejudice going on.

When the trial starts versus Tom Robinson, the jury is all white people. Everyone knows that no wonder what Atticus says Bob Ewell; who is white its going to win. White people basically had power of the black people; a black person could not feel bad for a white person, it was just not the way it was. When Tom Robinson said in he felt sorry for Mayella and thats why he helped her; the court was silent and surprised; they didnt like it. There was alot of subsequent evedince that he didnt do anything & that all that Mayella was saying was a fraud and very irrelavent.

Mr. Dolphus Raymond; the town drunkie reveals to Dill and Scout he really doesnt drink; he drinks coke. The reason that he doesnt tell all MayComb is to give the white people a reason for how he lives. He just prefers black people then white; he has mixed children and they have trouble to fit in. If youre pauper also; you will also have trouble fitting in.