SOCIAL PRESSURE TOWARDS TOM ROBINSON IN MAYCOMB

Abstract

‘‘To Kill a Mockingbird’’ is a book with multiple morals, where each reader can find his own sense. Tom Robinson is a person who unfairly accused for attacking Mayella Ewell. He is an African – American who brought not only a morality and mental growth, but also a lot of problems to the main characters. Moreover, the author chose Tom as a representative of innocence and society’s inhumanity towards black people. The main purpose of the paper is discuss racism and the consequences of it. The article demonstrates extent to which the main characters were reshaping throughout the story and injustice of society in Maycomb. It concludes with clarifying the scale of racism and poor level of society’s worldview in those times