Discrimination The Impacts of Racial Prejudice 1. Segregation
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Atticus Finch has defended the enemy of white people. Therefore, Atticus also becomes most of white people’s enemy. He and his family get
oppression for long time from people hate them. Tom Robinson also gets oppression at the night, when he is in the jail. Some white people go to the jail
to lynch tom Robinson. Yet, it is failed because Atticus has thought about that, and he guards
the jail’s door to avoid them. “In ones and twos, men got out of the cars. Shadows became
substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door. Atticus remained where he was. The men hid him from view.
“He in there, Mr. Finch?” a man said. “He is,” we heard Atticus answer, “and he’s asleep. Don’t wake him
up.” “…You know what we want,” another man said. “Get aside from the
door, Mr. Finch.” Lee: 202
That is the kind of oppression which is done by white people to black people, when they know there is a black man has problem with white people.
This kind of oppression is very dangerous, because they want to kill a human. Tom Robinson’s case will be talked tomorrow in the court, but they do not
care about that. Because of their prejudice, their hatred has been developed in their mind. It encourages them to do violence toward the others.
The hatred is still brought, even when Tom Robinson has been passed away. Atticus and family experience it in their daily living, as what
people said about Atticus and Bob Ewell.
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“…this morning Mr. Bob Ewell stopped Atticus on the post office corner, spat in his face, and told him he’d get him if it took the rest of
his life”. Lee: 290
And the climax is when Bob Ewell wants to kill Scout and Jem in Halloween night. In page 357-362 Harper Lee explains about the chronology
of murdered attempt toward Scout and Jem. Bob Ewell has said to Atticus that he can kill anybody in his family, because he has defended a black man.
Racial prejudice makes Bob Ewell hates Atticus very much. He has big revenge to him, because however Attticus has revealed the facts of what
Ewells do against Tom Robinson. Racial prejudice creates the horrible oppression in society that makes the others live in threat. It can make people
live in society unsafely. Of course, it disturbs harmonic of life among people in society.