Is Mrs Dubose Racist?

Is Mrs Dubose Racist? Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose is an elderly woman who lives near the Finches. She is hated by the children, who run past her house to avoid her. … A virulent racist, she calls Atticus a “nigger-lover” to his children’s faces, and Jem flies into a rage and ravages Mrs. Dubose’s camellia

Was To Kill A Mockingbird Black And White?

Was To Kill A Mockingbird Black And White? Two black characters, Tom and Atticus’s much beloved maid, Calpurnia (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), have more to say here than in the novel. Both, in their ways, try to rouse Atticus from his accommodationism, and to remind him that the truths he expounds abstractly have played out, concretely,