Journal #7

Journal #7
Alexis Espinoza
Choice C: So far, is this a novel about race? Class? Gender? Coming of Age? Place? Select and defend your answer.

Throughout the novel I think it mainly has to do with race and maybe class. Class is maybe for me because it doesn’t really matter if you’re poor in that time period because people didn’t look at the amount of money you had but by the color of your skin. Gender does not matter in the book at the moment but besides Scout and how she acts. The place which is Maycomb is mainly like any other place in the south throughout the time period. The coming of age doesn’t matter because in the book right now you see that Jem Dill and Scout realize many things that are happening that they never realized before. For example the racism, the hatred, and the cause and effects things happening in everyday life in Maycomb.
The main thing that I’m getting at is that race is an important deal in that time. In Chapter twenty I found out that Mr. Doulphus Raymond is a white guy who is “Drunk” all the time but he actually acts like he is, to hang out with the Negroes. He doesn’t care if they are black but he prefers blacks than whites as he likes their personality. Another example is when Jem and Scout and Dill end up sitting with the Negroes in the court, as they stick out and it shows that it doesn’t matter how you look or what color you are it matters how you act inside.
Also it’s about race because the whites in Maycomb treat the blacks as trash and don’t appreciate the things they do to help them. The only white people who like black’s are Atticus the kids and also Mr. Raymond. In the court most of the people in the court are white which gives them the upper hand and upper voice to be heard in the court.
The court ruled Tom Robinson who is black; guilty of course as like I said most of the whites in Maycomb do not APPRECIATE the blacks. I think also the blacks just play it cool like Atticus and they all respected him because of his personality and not the color of his skin.