To Kill A Mockingbird: Unreliable Narrative

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Unreliable Narrator: Choose any villain. Write a diary entry garnering sympathy for the villain. You may want to consider providing the backstory. Hello, I am Anastasia. I know that I am the last person that you want to talk to. I doubt you even know who I am. I am most known as Cinderella’s evil step sister. Yes, I know. But you don’t know my side of this fairy tale. It was all fake. I am the ‘evil step sister’ that everyone hates. I am the one that apparently ripped apart the beautiful dress that Cinderella made all by herself. Did you forget that all of that dress was made from my things that she had stolen? That isn't even the worst part. Her father, you know the one. The gallant, fantastic man that did so much for the citizens of …show more content…
The white people treated the black people un-humanely and in such a repulsive matter that I hope it never again becomes accepted. The main law that stuck out to me was the lack of welcoming that was shown in churches. Black men, women, and children were not allowed to attend ‘white people’s churches’. As we see in To Kill a Mockingbird, the whites churches were much better off than the black churches. The blacks could not read, nor did they have enough funds to purchase anything which resulted in them not having any hymnals. They made due without this, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that things that we expect in today’s churches, were an unavailable luxury to them. When Calpurnia brought Jem and Scout into her church, which was all coloured folk, we see that the black people feared them and treated them as authority. Churches nowadays are, and should, be seen as a place of acceptance and equality. This is not the message that was given with the Jim Crow law stating that blacks and whites should attend different churches and that the white church will be much more wealthy. This is why I think that the separation of blacks and whites in different churches was a law that was especially disturbing in my