Harper Lee introduces Lula in her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, for several reasons. Firstly, Lula shows that personal, social and political history affect how people behave. Lula is bitter because the white people are allowed to come to her church but she is not allowed to go to the white's church. Her history of being a subject of racism ahs made her generally angry. When Lula becomes upset at Calpurnia for bringing Jem and Scout to the Negro church, the shows the theme of the evils of prejudice and segregation in the deep South during the 1930s. Lula is prejudiced against white people because they have been racist against her before. Lula is really the only black person in the novel who is angry about her white counter-parts. Tom, Helen, Calpurnia, Zeebo, Reverend Sykes and other black people in the novel expressed little or no resentment towards white people. This, in my opinion, is a flaw in To Kill A Mockingbird because many blacks, in reality, were angry at whites and their (the black's) situation...
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