To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Cunninghams
The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee contain a very engaging family who are the Cunninghams. The Cunninghams are very poor; they are people who live in the woods. They are a family who depend highly on crops. Walter Cunningham, the 'father' of the family has to work hard on the cultivation of crops because crops is the only form of wages for them. The Cunninghams have no money. Their only way to survive is through paying others with their crops. The Cunninghams are not main characters in the book, but they are characters who 'brought out' other characters' personality. Harper Lee displays that there is a lot of prejudice going on in Maycomb by putting the Cunninghams in the book. "The Cunninghams [were] country folks, farmers"(21) who are very honest people in Maycomb, they "never took anything they [
could not] pay back"(23), but they are unfairly mistreated by part of the society in Maycomb.
It is hard for a family like the Cunninghams to have people that are prejudice to them because of the kind of folks they are. They are honest people who I admire because they are very poor, and they had a way to survive by giving people their crops as money. I also thought that it is very mature of them not to receive anything from anyone if they do not have a way to repay them. It is a pity that people like Aunt Alexandra cannot see how great the Cunninhgams are. The Cunninghams are very poor, and honest people, but they are mistreated by part of the society.
The Cunninghams are mistreated by part of the society in Maycomb. Aunt Alexandra, who mistreats them the most, is prejudiced toward the Cunninghams, she d
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