Examples Of Equality In To Kill A Mockingbird

If you’re in high school, how many times do you hear the expression “Yo, what up nigga.” This is the word that travels through the hallways of many schools and on the streets in many cities. However, do people know what the word means? That’s the problem. They don’t know what it means yet they still say the word. What does it help them achieve? Does it help them be cool? Does it help them fit into a group of people? Now we all say this word to whites, Asians, Hispanics, and even blacks, but do we think how it makes them feel? Imagine if you were African American and had ancestors get whipped, have to use a separate bathroom, and much more, and still be called a nigger. This is a problem we had back then and that we still have today. We used one word to describe

Discrimination: a noun that is defined as, “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex”. There are many types of discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story that is taken place during the Great Depression . Scout is the main character and her father Atticus is defending a man named Tom Robinson, who is a Negro. There are three main topics that are discriminated in To Kill a Mockingbird. The three main topics that are discriminated are socioeconomics, gender, and most importantly, racism.

In the morning of his first day in the Uncharted Forest, Equality 7-2521, realizes that he has woken up on his own for the first time in his life. The daily bell of the morning did not ring, and no one sought to wake him up. Then and there, Equality discovers himself as an individual, and not part of a whole. In that moment, he senses his past troubles, and worries are far behind him. He, for the first time in forever, is on his own.

Also, even the children of the county view the blacks as lower class. They know that they are above them, and sometimes the children act like it. Scout says during the trial, “Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Negro,” (Lee 226). This shows that even innocent Scout can just act like she’s better than Tom.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, and in the world today there is racial and social inequality going on all around us. I am sure that there will never be true racial and social equality, but I think that it will get dramatically better. Just like it has gotten better since the 1930’s, which is the time that To Kill a Mockingbird is set in.

Equality, it’s a word that has many different interpretations all over the world. For some people equality means having the right to vote or marry who they love, but for others it could just mean having the right to go out of your own house without a man’s permission, or the right to drive a car. Equality for all people in America has come a long, long way. There was a time when African Americans weren’t even considered people, but now one has been President. I think that “To Kill a Mockingbird” is an excellent example of the injustice and hatred that has been shown towards African Americans in this country and how people have slowly changed their minds and broken down a lot of racial and ethnic barriers.

The absence of courage on equality in the novel To Kill a mockingbird led to the death of Tom Robinson. In Maycomb African Americans were looked upon as second-class citizens, because of this none of them could vote or attain the same equal status. Moreover, in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird an African American was put on trial for a crime he didn’t commit. Likewise, this was obvious to everyone present in the courtroom, however, the lack of courage to stand up for equality in this town caused Tom to be sentenced to life in prison and eventually die. According, To Kill a Mockingbird “I don’t know how they could convict Tom Robinson, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they do it tonight” (225). This quote shows how all citizens knew

The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, tells the story of Atticus Finch, a white man defending a black man, Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape. Atticus, his children Jem and Scout, live in the small town Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. With this location and time setting, Lee reveals the racial injustice of the south through the characters Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell, and Calpurnia.

According to the United Nations Foundation, 62 million girls around the world are refused education and mentorship programs, such as Step Up, helps to maintain girls in school to get them closer to achieve their dreams. The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, focuses on the lives of Jem and Scout, as Scout retells three years of her childhood in the span of 372 pages. The story is about growing up in Alabama during the 1930s, after the Great Depression. During this era, there happened to be rampant discrimination, as such, there was also the same level of discrimination in the small fictional location of Maycomb County. Through the eyes of Scout, readers see how her father, Atticus, is very passionate and dedicated to his

Discrimination: unjust treatment of a different group of people or things. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, discrimination is visible. The one most identify with is racism, with a great deal of the story revolving Tom Robinson’s, a black man, jury case. Left in the shadows, though, is the prejudice of other characters, whom the community of Maycomb may find to be a bit on the outs. Whether it is their way of life or how they act, someone always pick up on it and calls them out. Atticus Finch is old compared to the rest of the parents of students at Scouts school, keeping him from activities like the Methodists vs Baptists football game. Boo Radley, making poor decisions as a teenager, is confined to his house twentyfour-seven and

Harper lee conveys to the reader through Dill that just because Tom is black does not make him a bad person. Scout and Dill have a very different view on Tom Robinson. During Tom Robinson's court case, “For some reason Dill started crying and couldn’t stop; quietly at first, then his sobs were heard by several people in the balcony” (264). Dill crying is Harper Lee relaying to the reader that the prejudice against Tom is wrong and it hurts people. Most people see Tom as a rapist because they are not taking the facts into consideration, all they see is his skin color but this is not what Dill sees. Dill sees how innocent Tom is despite his skin color and it pains him to see how everyone attacks Tom in the courtroom and how they are not treating him fairly even though he is getting a so called “fair trial”. Later Dill and scout have a conversation where Scout says, “Well, Dill he's just a negro.’ ‘I don’t care one speck,’ Dill says. ‘It ain’t right, somehow it ain’t right to do’em that way. Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that-it makes me sick”’ (266). Even though Scout is saying that Tom is just a negro and that he

Unfairness was such a big part in the book To Kill A Mockingbird because Mr.Cunningham was without a doubt of kind , honest man with hopes and dreams just like anyone else. But unfortunately he had to deal with unfairness because of his color he was never noticed what he done, good only what he got accused of doing. Not only did it show that just because a person is a different color they get treated differently, but also that you're not always noticed for the person you are you're known to the person someone makes you out to be.

“We hold these truths to be self - evident that all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This is a famous line that Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Yet, America has failed to show social equality to every race, religion, and gender since the known article was created. Throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and in society today, social equality is not demonstrated in the novel nor in the present.

Knock! Knock! Judge Taylor begins hitting his gavel as the court adjourned. Tom Robinson and Atticus knowing they are going to lose as they take their seats. To Kill A Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in the 1960’s set in Alabama. This book talks about a lot of social inequality in multiple different forms. When we think of social inequality we think about gender and race, both of these are major struggles in To Kill A Mockingbird and today's society.

Jem loses his sense of innocence towards society as he began to realize how racist and critical the residents of Maycomb and the judicial system really is. When children are young, they can be imaginative and confident, just like Dill. Dill is one of the few characters that shows a sign of grief or distress in the novel. While Dill and Scout out Tom Robinson’s testimony, Mr. Gilmer starts a cross-examination which seems intimidating towards Tom. In Dill’s point of view, Mr. Gilmer is just spitting out unnecessary hatred and could not handle it anymore, which leads to Scout escorting Dill out of the balcony due to him sobbing non-stop. Dill blurts out: “‘Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that---it just makes me sick’” (266). The cross-examination begins to make Dill more aware of how many people look down on black people and that they should not be treated so poorly. Mr. Raymond later explains that Dill is not crying because he is overly sensitive, but due to the fact that he cries when white people bring hate towards black people without realizing that they are all humans themselves. Mr. Raymond told Scout that once Dill gets