Month: April 2015

Harper lee satirizes the white community of maycomb frequently. the one that caught my eye however was when ms gates said that there was no one better than the Jews and she didn’t understand why Hitler disliked them. i think that this could be seen as satire because even though she thinks that Hitler was being irrational with the Jewish but  her opinion of black people is worse because Hitler believed that if they didn’t get rid of the Jews then they would take over the world which means that they have some form of power but in her and the majority of the southern white community at that time believed that blacks were inhumans and/or dirt that was why they were given the name of the color of their skin negro. This could also be seen as allusion because she was referencing to the Second World War when hitter did not like the Jews and tried to kill and torture them.this shows that the white community of maycomb are hypocrites as they treat black people so similar.