journal #7

choice: C

The prompt that I decided to write about was this question: So far, is this a novel about race? Class? Gender? Coming of Age? Place? My answer is all of the above. This book in my opinion is about judgement, and how people judge eachother based on those things. race, Gender, class, age, and even where you are from. But the three that I will talk about in depth are race, class, and gender.

First off the biggest reason that people judge eachother is race. White people and colored people lived seperately, and if any white man hung around negroes he was hated. My first example of this is when Tom Robinson was decided guilty by the biased jury. Even though he was proved innocent, and the accuser was proved guilty, because Tom Robinson was black he lost. Back then if a white man was called equal to a black man it was a diss. My second example has to do with mixed kids. A man named Dolphus Raymond had a few kids with a black woman, and they were mixed kids. He said that no white man liked them because they were part black, and no black man liked them because they were half white. The next way that people were judged in this book was by class. Jem said in chapter twenty four that their are four classes in Maycomb. the normal class, the people like the Ewells, the cunninghams, and the negroes. Well, the highest group, and best judged is definately the normal class, then Cunningham, then Ewell, then Negroes. lastly the third reason that people were judged was by their gender. the biggest reason that I can think of Is that no woman was alowed to be in the jury, and at that time no woman was allowed to vote.

In conclusion i think that this book is about this moral: don't judge a book by it's cover.

- Matt h