How is hypocrisy shown in ch24?

 

Hypocrisy is shown in Ch24 by Miss Merriweather as she shows sympathy for the Mrunas; a black African tribe but has no respect or sympathy for the black people in her own town “Oh child, those poor Mrunas.” , “Living in that jungle with nobody but J. Grimes Everett.” And “Not a white person’ll go near ‘em but that saintly J. Grimes Everett.”, but when talking about her own black community in Maycomb she discriminates them and refers to them as “Darky’s” and can’t even remember their name that darky’s wife. Tom’s wife, Tom” “There’s nothing more distracting than a sulky darky.” And “It’s never entered that wool of hers.”

I believe she shows sympathy towards the Mrunas in Africa as they’re not under any type of control from the ‘white man’ as they’re free and can live their life how they see fit which according to Miss Merriweather and J. Grimes Everett  is filled with “sin and squalor”.  J.Grimes Everett and  Miss Merriweather feel that  they have to go over there and ‘help them’ as J. Grimes Everett is using subjugation on them and forcing Christianity, his religious views and morals to them.  So the reason I believe she’s shows no sympathy for black people in Maycomb is because even though there is still white supremacy in America  they’re no longer under the control of the ‘white man’ i.e. the slaves have now been free.

And finally another instance of hypocrisy in Ch24 is again from Miss Merriweather  as she is supossedly the moust devout lady in Maycomb, a woman, a proper lady, someone who knows all the proper etiquette and how to act but in Ch24 she is disrespecting Atticus, gossiping  behind his back  in his own house whilst eating his food  “I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town. Good, but misguided. Folks in this town who think they’re doing right, I mean. Now far be it from me to say who, but some of ‘em in this town thought they were doing the right thing a while back, but all they did was stir ‘em up. That’s all they did. Might’ve looked like the right thing to do at the time, I’m sure I don’t know, I’m not read in that field, but sulky… Dissatisfied”.  Miss Maudie then said “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?” as she felt the need of reminding her of where she is and to put her in her place.

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  1. Razzaq,

    This is stunning. Your analysis is well developed and you have clearly met the requirements of the task, as well as skilfully embedding quotations in order to support your argument.

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    Look at this sentence: ‘as J. Grimes Everett is using subjugation on them and forcing Christianity, his religious views and morals to them. ‘ I like that you have tried to use the term subjugation and you have also shown that you understand it but you must use it in the correct tense.

    For example: Harper Lee show the subjugation of the Mrunas in order to …

    Always re-read and edit sentence structures – how might your meaning be made clearer?

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