Examples Of Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Social injustice has flooded the world and will continue to flood the world until someone stops all this evil. In Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, there is poverty and racism ruling over the South. Scout Finch has yet to realize all the evil surrounding her and her family. The evil that takes over Maycomb is the racism that lives in the hearts of its citizens. In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, readers see a view of social injustices caused by racism through the Maycomb citizens who see the world through a veil of hypocrisy, which is shown by their actions in the way they talk down to Tom, and the truths of Maycomb’s society.

Being at the top of the social hierarchy has been a must for every American of past generations, but can lead to fatal damages for some trying to obtain that goal and a cause to ruin people’s lives. In a remarkably triumphant story on compassion, Harper Lee explored the horrors of racial prejudice in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Set in the 1930’s, the poor town of Maycomb, Alabama has been hit by the depression hard, which created a vast, complex social pyramid, with distinct families and lifestyles. At the Finch household, composed of a little nine year old girl, Scout, a twelve year old boy Jem, and their father Atticus, proceed through a whirlwind of events throughout the next few years. Atticus, a lawyer who is a hardworking, honest man at the top of the social hierarchy of Maycomb, has to defend a colored man by the name of Tom Robinson. This happened to be very unusual for the time period, as the family has to transcend through the struggles in a racial prejudice town and learn the raw nature of the worst in humans, thus trying to overcome these events through compassion. The author utilizes metaphor, characterization, and mood to describe the situation of Maycomb, it soon then becomes very clear that the dangers of ruining innocence can lead to a vast road of horrors and evils.

If humanity does not remember our past and reflect it, we will never move forward to a more successful future. The only way to move forward and make the world a better place is to learn from our past. Through inequality, we have learned from the past to grow our communities in the spirit of a hopeful future by being compassionate and resilient. One way we have grown from our past to grow our communities in spirit of a hopeful future is to stand up for inequality and make a difference. In To Kill a Mockingbird, a black man, Tom Robinson, was accused of a crime that he did not commit just because he was a black man.

The characters in, To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, often use prejudice against people of controversial issues. Many of the townspeople of Maycomb use prejudice on the families who are on the less wealthy end of the spectrum. Issues are still displayed because of the racial prejudice used against African Americans and those of other races. Lastly, gender is a clear issue in Maycomb because of women’s and girl’s rights and lack of respect towards them because they are female. All of the types of prejudice show that Maycomb has many problems all throughout the town between other families and townspeople.

Life is like a thrill ride; one never knows what will be in store for them. Many characters in the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee feel the same way about life, having experienced many surprising and unexpected turns of events. This story is about a sleepy southern town filled with prejudice, and a lawyer’s quest, along with his children Scout and Jem, to take steps in ridding the town of its prejudiced attitude. Despite being a white man, a lawyer named Atticus, defends an innocent black man accused of raping a white woman. However, everything does not go as was hoped, and the mindset of the society overpowered Atticus’s fair-minded argument. From this emerges a theme regarding the bigotry and bias overwhelming Maycomb: A

They say it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, but it is not a sin to discriminate those who are different. The book To Kill a Mockingbird is about a young girl named Scout, her older brother Jem, and their father Atticus, who is a lawyer, in the 1930s. Throughout the whole book there are many story lines, But the main one is about a court case. The court case is a big deal in the town because it's black versus white, and scouts father is defending Tom Robinson, the black man, who has been accused of raping a white girl. There is a lot social inequalities such as gender, social status, and race.

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.

Race is an obvious division in the society of Maycomb. White people are automatically thought of as good people, while African Americans do not get accepted. The people of Maycomb seem to think that there's something not right about black people, just because that's not traditional in the south. Tradition states that white people are better than black people without a question, and we can see through name-calling and the unfair trail that many people in Maycomb still hold on to this tradition. They don't even think that African Americans deserve to associate with whites hardly at all. Examples of characters experiencing this divide are Atticus and Tom. Atticus gets looked down upon by a lot of people in the town simply because he wanted to defend Tom, who was

The people of Maycomb accused this innocent black man of raping a girl, solely based on the color of his skin. Furthermore, they sentenced him as guilty not because of the truth or evidence, but because they thought of the black as inferior. When Atticus explained to his brother, Uncle Jack, the court situation, he explains, “It couldn’t be worse, Jack… The jury couldn’t possibly be expected to take Tom Robinson’s word against the Ewells” (100). Despite evidence that proved Tom innocent, the jury denied Tom’s honest word and clear evidence, simply because a black man’s word did not have impact against the white’s.

When someone thinks about inequality the most likely think about skin color, but in the book To Kill A Mockingbird a novel by: Harper Lee, there is also social inequality. This book takes place during the Great Depression. This is a time when there was segregation and there was social classes within the community. This causes most people to lose their money and/or houses. A lot of the citizens in the community are broke which creates a lot of tension between characters. There are many different social classes and the community is separated by their skin color. So within the the white community and the black community people are judged based on the amount of money they have. The main character Scout lives with her dad, Atticus, and her brother, Jem. She goes to school like most kids and her family is doing well considering that they live in a time where money and wealth is uncommon. In the book there are a lot of racist members of the community, this includes

”If you had been on that jury, son, and eleven other boys like you, Tom would be a free man”(Lee 295). Here Atticus confirms that the men in the jury were racist, and they did not have a good morals like Jem because if they did Robinson wouldn't have been charged. The result also shows there is division in the towns views because it reveals the two types of people in Maycomb those who are legitimately racist, and those who can tolerate negros, and deep down know that Robinson is innocent. The accusation of Tom Robinson also showed the town was divided because the black people constantly live in fear of white people. This divides the negro citizens, from the whites

The world is a mosaic of all different cultures and colors, and either these differences can clash, causing a problem, or combine to make something uniquely beautiful. When people clash, it creates war and destruction, leaving people distraught, but when these very same people choose to combine what they know and believe in it can bring wonderful things into the world like celebrations and children. The cultures and societies that these people believe in have their own way of living and different rules. Some cultures may not support the combination of white and black while others would kill to see it. These societies’ all over the world deem certain practices and people to be acceptable, whether it is an established caste system or a simple friend group in high school.

Discuss Harper Lee’s Presentation of Maycomb Society in to Kill a Mockingbird Maycomb is described as a “tired old town” where the inhabitants had “nowhere to go”. Maycomb is very similar to any small southern town in the 1930’s, sexism, racism and other prejudices are at a peak, and old traditions are carried out regularly. To Kill a Mockingbird revolves solely around family, community and society, the focus point of the book, the rape trial, would not have occurred if society had not looked down upon the black community.

In the book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, racism and social inequality are two central themes. Many different forms of social inequality coexist in the society depicted in the book, as the people of Maycomb are very rigid in their ways. This is because the book takes place in a time at which there was much racism and social inequality. In Maycomb, firstly there is discrimination between rich and poor white people, who do not often interact with each other. There is also racism against blacks by all white people in society, both rich and poor. Black people are denied basic rights and discriminated against in this town. Lastly, there is racism between the lowest classes of the community: poor white people and

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, is a realistic story that deeply discusses issues involved with the 1930’s that still resonate today. The struggles of life are evident within the believable characters of Maycomb County which is a microcosm, reflective of universal issues. Along with the authentic characters, setting and style also helps to convey Lee’s controversial notions of racial and gender prejudice, and persecution of the innocent, discussing many other ideas within.