Genesis 39

This helps me understand that people who do good, get good back, “23The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph 's charge, because the Lord was with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it succeed”(BibleRef.com). Even though Calpurnia is working as a maid, she is treated like part of the family. People may judge the Finch’s for treating her and talking to her more like she’s family rather than a maid, but they believe that she is a person and deserves to be treated like one, “‘Well, I’m sure Cal knows it. Everybody in Maycomb knows it… Anything fit to say at the table is fit to say in front of Calpurnia. She knows what she means to this family’”(Lee 178). This connects to racism because Aunt Alexandra was telling Atticus to not talk like that in front of Calpurnia because she is a colored person. Atticus didn’t care about that and then told her that if it can be talked about around the table then it can be talked about Around Cal.

I feel this helps to understand TKAM in the way that when Joseph was accused of lying with his master's wife through being set up. "19As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled." (BibleRef.com) The moment that he was accused since he was considered a servant although he was a man of God he was punished without reasoning or proof. this directly links to when Tom Robinson was accused of assaulting and raping Mayella Ewell without valid proof but since he was considered a slave or a less important person there didn't need a reason to convict him."Judge Taylor was polling the jury: guilty,guilty,guilty,guilty"(Lee 240) it helps to show the pure racism that society was built up on.

this article better helps me understand not only understand the situation that Tom is in, but how it has related to other situations shown in other literature, and the bible being used is such a strong thing to use, however, the scene in which "Joseph twists out of his cloak and escapes outside to safety." (bibleref.com) is nearly the exact same from the scene where tom runs from the Ewells home trying to avoid temptations and the Ewells oldest daughter trying to seduce him, talking with Atticus and saying "then you ran? "I sho' did, sch" "Why did you run?" " I was scared,suh." (Lee 222). In this toms situation could be related to the adversity of racism, as he was black so he was already discriminated against, but also, because he was black, as he was running from the Ewells home he was called slurs and was threatened with death. .even to the point that once tom was in jail i group of men showed up to kill tom in jail, and was only stopped by scout.

This help me better understand the book because of how joseph was treated just like how tom was since they were both accused with out any proof of doing said thing. “As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, "This is the way your servant treated me," his anger was kindled” (BibleRef.com) the quote was important because his master believed his wife without any actual solid proof which is also what happened with tom since tom was also accused of commiting a big crime without anyone having solid proof that he did it. “I seen that black n word  yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (lee 196) this qoute was from ewell basicly saying tom did it even tho there was no dna evidence of him doing it. This relates to racisim since ewell is just saying that tom did it and he doesnt believe anything tom says since he is considered lesser than ewell because of his skin color

Joseph's predicament is a very familiar scenario to Toms. Where a man is accused by a woman that he had touched her. When she had put herself upon him and been rejected. In her embarrassment, anger or detection of her injustice. She pins the crime on the man in both cases. Resulting in his temporary incarceration. 

“  Now Joseph was handsome in appearance.

7And after a time his master 's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me." 8But he refused and said to his master 's wife, "Behold, because of me my master ‘ … ‘he has put everything that he has in my charge ‘ … ‘ he has kept back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. …” “10And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.”  (BibleRef.com) 

Joseph did not intend to sleep with his masters wife and openly rejected her despite this she still pursued him. 

“ 11But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house, 12she caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. “ 

“14she called to the men of her household and said to them, ‘ … ’ 17and she told him the same story, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me. 18But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house." (BibleRef.com) 

She accuses him the same way that miss. Mayella Ewell accuses mr, tom robbinsons. Saying that it was he who had put himself upon her when it was the other way around. Spinning a lie out of embarrassment and guilt, perhaps even anger just like the pharos wife in chapter 18 pg,s’ 210+212-213. (TKAM)

These incidents relate to sexism, and racism in tandem. It is a battle between whether or not the words of the woman are reliable as well as the physical capacity of a larger dark skinned male to inflict harm upon a smaller and weaker white woman. However because of the racist beliefs of the deciding party it is chosen that the defendant is guilty.  

Joseph being a hebrew and slave to the egyptians and tom a black man former slave of the whites.