The Mixed Children

        In chapter 16, we know that the trial finally start. Everyone in Maycomb goes to the courthouse to watch the trial, Jem, Dill, and Scout join with them at the courthouse. When they are in the courthouse, Dill sees a group of African-American in the corner of the square. They sat quietly in the sun, dining on sardines, crackers, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond sits with them. Mr. Dolphus Raymond drinking out of a paper snack, inside it is Co-Cola bottle full of whiskey. Dill wonders about why Mr. Raymond sitting with the African-American people and he asks Jem about this, Jem says that Mr. Raymond likes them better than like us. Mr. Raymond also has a colored woman and the mixed children.
        The mixed child is a half white and half colored, they don't belong to anywhere. During the Great Depression, the mixed children always sad and lonely, no one accepts them, they are not white, also not colored, they're between. I feel kind of sad when I read this, the mixed children also a human, but because they are between white and colored so they're not equal to the others. I can understand their feelings, although I'm not go through it but I have known it from many actions of people in every day, also from many books I have read. Sometimes, the most painful thing of some people is not recognized from the other people, they have to live their own life, always alone. Today, we don't have it anymore, we don't discriminatory people like in the Great Depression but I think this is a good thing we need to know. For me, the thing I learned from this is at any time, we need to have the tolerance, we have to treat everyone equally.