themes

I think the theme of this book is racism and people being prejudice. One example of this theme is during Tom Robinson's trial. The evidence proves that Tom Robinson is innocent and that Bob Ewell was the one who phisicaly asulted Mayella, but the jury still said that tom was guilty. This happened because the jury was prejudice against Tom and the jury would believe Mayella over Tom because Mayella is white and Tom is black. There is a lot racism in maycome and i found this to be true when atticuss said "they've done it before and they did it tonight they'll do it again" after Tom was wrongfully accused.(213)

Another instant in the book were rasicm or people being prejudice was shown was when Scout and Jem went to Cal's church. Lula, one of Cal's church's members, didn't like Scout and Jem being there. racism isn't just shown by white people in the book. Lula is prejudice against white people and i came to this conclusion when Lula said "you ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here-they got their church, we got our'n."(119)