Author: Gena Bagley

Silence, Soundless, Still. Creaking open the door seeing it. Glaring back lay the shadow of intimidation of the pedagogue. Waiting in that line for what seemed decades witnessing all the crushed dreams with the denial that came out of the spine chilling office. Sitting down upon the hide chair beginning to exchange words with Coach Ed the tension was rising. This was It a whole life leading up to this moment. Ricocheting around the room was light reflecting off all the awards, the prestigiousness of this college program was immeasurable and was overpowering every movement. All this pressure to succeed makes the body still, unable to move. Frozen.

Listen, The creaking of the door slowly emerges back, Hurrying in the assistant bursts into the meeting and asks the coach to leave. Alone. left with deadly thoughts. The struggle to achieve even a chance, having to overcome the race put-downs to achieve a chance at this extensive-stage was overpowering my every though. Put-downs and setbacks flood imagination. The early morning sun is now at full beam, Blasting through the windows it hard to ignore its presence, the ever coming and everlasting demon of failure starts to engulf victims.

Feet rummaging outside the hollow door. Chatter starting to echo over the empty building. The longer this burden body is left in this room the more imperfections begin to flood in, this place is not safe for any soul. Darkness being let in through the pressured gates of stress. walking down this cobbly path I’m struggling to find the light at the end. being told it’s unrealistic and I’m unprepared, feeling lost in my mind I sit on the path of confusion as time still has to pass and soon my desition will be too late as those who wait for there future to happen reality catches up and violently shocks them.

Look, as the sun rises behind the immense building the glimmers of hope start to burst through the grey overcast clouds, filled up with shadows these clouds all sources of hope as it engulfs the sun back into its deep slumber. The halls of such buildings filled with shelves overflowing with success stories and trophies. Still standing outside the building you are mesmerized as you see nothing but overachievers and exemplar people staring at your presence.

And still, you stand, still, stunned. Mesmerized. At the utter beauty from the towering building. Frozen you stand as you wander deep in your thoughts, Empty as you wonder why am I the left one out, excluded from the group of a perfectionist. you’re here now, no turning back. The life full of anticipating this very day. yours done now. you have lived through it. your first college offer

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During the time of this book, class prejudice was peaking and racism was at its worst so a lot of the settings where this story is located are known for being some of the most prejudiced states in America. The story’s name also symbolizes destroying innocence. Throughout the book, multiple characters such as Jem, Tom Robinson, Dill, Boo Radley, and Mr. Raymond can be identified as mockingbirds as they have been innocent but also who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. Showing the meaning of how to kill a mockingbird because no one wants to because it’s showing the death of innocents and so it’s saying how to kill one. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

“There are four kinds of folks in the world. The ordinary kind like us and the neighbors… the Cunninghams… the Ewells… and the Negroes.” the character of Dolphus Raymond, who defies the norms of his class as a white man from an established family, demonstrates the social class prejudices in Maycomb. Some people in the novel have portrayed the idea that the classes of the town are alive. As they assume which group people fell into just by looking at their clothes skin or their background and they treated them differently because of that. This shows the same type of discrimination as racism as they assume there place in the town whilst not even getting a first impression.

In the book we experience a lot of discrimination towards the lower-class people of the town, we see this in some extreme cases such as in the class room where one of the cunninghams didn’t have any food for lunch so the teacher offered some money, this ends in one of the students explains how he won’t be able to pay back as he is too poor and will have to repay in a different style of work

we see this type of treatment when Tom Roberts goes for his trial. “In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” Atticus’ words reveal that the courts were always biased against black people. No matter how much evidence proved their innocence, if they had been accused of a crime by a white person they would always be found guilty.