Harper Lee has a number of characters that contribute to the novel and the violent scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird, some that make sense and some that don't. Some characters who appear often and others who have a minimal role in the novel, but the characters who do not appear often seem to have the greatest impact on the novel. There are three characters who are looked down upon by the society around them, one because of their race and two because of their morality. Society ignored these people simply because it was afraid that they might be like them and like the unknown. Lee uses violence and alienation to help depict the things that are wrong within the small society. Dolphus Raymond, a man who pretended to be the town drunk so he could be with the woman he loved. Mr. Raymond is a white man who fell in love with a black woman. Living in South Alabama, you couldn't be with an African American if he was white. He walked around Maycomb County with a bottle of Coke in a paper bag and drank it every day. “When I come to town, which is rare, if I weave a little and drink from this bag, people can say that Dolphus Raymond is in the clutches of whiskey – that's why he won't change his ways. He can’t help it, that’s why he lives the way he lives” (Lee, 268). He came from a wealthy white family who probably had slaves in the past and knew that if he didn't act like a drunk that society would shun him because he was with an African American woman and he had interracial children with her. However, he thought that if he behaved like a town drunk, no one would avoid him because they wouldn't know. Mr. Raymond showed that it was acceptable to do what was different from ...... middle of paper ...... be remembered as individuals acting as a group. Lee uses this group to show that everyone is willing to be part of a group regardless of the harm it causes, but as soon as it becomes an individual matter they all turn away and let the legal process play out . In conclusion, Harper Lee uses a number of alienated characters to help her show that there is nothing wrong with being your own person and loving who you want to love. As well as showing that sometimes being afraid of the unknown and taking the time to try to get to know someone can greatly save your life. The violence throughout the novel also plays a major role in helping the novel because it shows that people will act one way in one group but completely different in another. Works Cited Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird. Reprint. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1982. Print