To Kill a Mockingbird Scene

 This was an assignment for class and we had to discuss a scene and why it meant something to us and I immediately chose this scene and you'll see why.

When Dill starts crying in the court room in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout decides to take him outside.  Outside the Courthouse they meet Mr. Dolphus Raymond. He is supposedly an evil man because he is a drinker and he lives with black people. MR. Dolphus Raymond gives Dill something to drink from the sack he always carries and they find out that Dolphus Raymond is drinking nothing than Coca-Cola. He says it gives people an excuse for why he lives like he does. MR. Dolphus Raymond doesn't want to change the way he lives so he acts likes a drunkard. He does this because if he didn't, people wouldn't understand that he wanted to live like that. Scout didn't understand either and Mr. Dolphus Raymond replies that he likes it better because he, like Dill gets that what the white people are doing to the black people isn't right and that they should change it. This really struck a chord with me because this proves how horrible their world was, just to live how you want to live and being chastised about it requires you to be something that you aren't and something that turns other people away and is considered repulsive. This is horrible and it makes me wonder if some people do that now, hiding their real selves just so people won't make fun of them for being themselves. This is the world we live and the world that Mr. Dolphus Raymond lives in.