Racism in Maycomb was the norm. It is dieses not too different from a dog with rabies. In Harper Lee’s town of Maycomb in To Kill A Mockingbird, any attempt to deviate from that racist form of thinking was shunned, and it was as well as branded on your forehead that you were a `nigger-lover'. Most of the towns’ people are very happy with the idea that the blacks in the county are lower than them and a lynch mob could correct any crime of a black, and that a trial would be a waste of time. Very few people in Maycomb dared risk the scorn of the town, but those who did were completely admirable. the Robinson trial brought out many characters that were entwined with a black and white mix such as Mr. Raymond, but it also showed the real character of some of the towns’ people and how infected they really are. For that matter, how infected Maycomb is, and can it be cured.
Racism is very symbolic issue in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. The scene that this is the most evident in is when the rabid dog comes in to town. Mr. Johnson’s dog, Tim Johnson wanders in on the end of Scout and Jem’s road. Tim looks mad according to Jem and he explains what the dog looks like to Calpurnia when he “hunched his shoulders” (93) then he “twitched his torso” (93). After explaining this to her, she comes outside to see the dog. Once she saw Tim she realised that it really is mad with a dieses. She calls Atticus, and he brings Heck Tate with him. The men pull up to the house and Heck grabs a rifle from the car and takes aim. Ultimately he ends up giving the rifle to Atticus only takes one shot to end the life of the dog on the far end of the street.
In this scene there is a great deal of underlying subjects, which can summarize the entire story of To Kill A Mockingbird. For instance, the dog is a great metaphor for the town of Maycomb. In relation to the town, the dog itself represents the town, and the rabies (dieses) the dog has, is representation of the...