The classic To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is told from a first-person view from Scout, a six year old tomboy who lives with his father Atticus Flinch, a lawyer, and her brother Jem, who is ten years old, in small town in Southern Alabama called Maycomb. The story takes place in the 1930’s, where segregation was in play and the Great Depression just happened. Atticus was appointed to be a lawyer for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of a crime he insisted he didn’t commit, and the jury comes to the conclusion that he is guilty, even though Atticus provided substantial evidence. The quote here is taken from where Jem and Scout are talking after the ruling at home: “...I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” (pg. 231). The excerpt …show more content…
She once told me a story about the very issue, where she was a victim of it. When she just moved to the United States from Brazil, she had a very thick accent, also, she was working at a doctors office. One day driving to the office after picking some medications from the pharmacy, she was stopped by a police even though she was driving under the speed limit. When the officer came up to her car, she started asking some questions. When he asked where my mother was driving to, she said to her office. The officer didn’t believe her, so he asked for proof. Digging through her bag, my mom looked for a folder with all of her forms needed for work that day. However, when she took out the folder, the medications she picked up flew out of it. The officer, thinking that it was illegally obtained, called in for backup. After hours of questions, she was finally allowed to go on with her day with a ticket for speeding. If my mother had no accent, the policeman would of probably believed that she was indeed a doctor, and understood when the medication flew out of the folder. This situation is similar to the one of Tom Robinson's. If he was a white man, the jury would have called him innocent. There might of not have been a trial in the first