Book: To Kill A Mockingbird
Prompt: 1.) Select a quote from your reading that you liked. 2.) What made you pick it? 3.) How
does it make you pause and think?
The quote I picked from To Kill A Mockingbird was, "...Whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash..." This quote shows that even if a white man is superior it is wrong to treat them that way. No matter of their skin color, race, or origin. It is wrong.
I picked this quote because it shows that treating another person in a different, negative manner is wrong. This shows that whoever thinks that they are superior based on the family they come from, how rich they are, or who he is no man should be able to treat another man like that because if their color. No man has the right to do that. Even during the late 1800's and the mid 1900''s where racism was at its strongest we now reflect on what we did wrong and how we treated African-Americans.
This makes me think in a very different way, although I already knew that racism was bad, it showed me that I shouldn't feel more powerful or superior over other people even if I live in a better place, have more money, or because of my skin color. This made me pause and think in a way I have never thought before towards this topic. The realization hit me hard but not hard enough to make me tremble in fear, but hard enough for me to know that any person that sterotypes, discriminates, excludes, or is racist is wrong and should learn their errors to become a better person. This is how I think towards this topic.
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