Gender Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

The act of prejudice is one that everyone experiences. Whether it be, a person who is distributing hate, or a person who is receiving hate, everyone has contact with it. Although it is present all over the globe, it is prominent in the United States. Both in the present and the past, endless acts of discrimination have taken place and left a monumental impact on the country. The effect that it leaves can be seen in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. In this story, sexism, racism, and isolation, are demonstrated in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. As the story progresses, Lee compares these concepts to one another and uses them to make a statement about the problematic nature in America.

The main issue of the section we are acting out of Chapter 11 in “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is the prejudice that Ms. Dubose holds. She is both sexist and racist, both forms of prejudice that were common back in her generation, but were finally starting to change at that time. Aunt Alexandra and Ms. Dubose, most likely having been raised in the same time period, were both offended by Scout wearing pants. Ms. Dubose specifically asked ‘What are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!’ (Lee, 101), which is greatly reminiscent of what Alexandra said at Christmas. Obviously, they were both raised with the same morals about having to wear dresses, causing them to be unintentionally sexist and myopic.

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.

Throughout the book, you can often see sexist beliefs. Written in the 1950s, based in the 1930s, Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird to challenge and expose many injustices occurring in society in those time periods. One of those injustices is Sexism. Sexism is the discrimination of someone based on their gender. In the 1930s, the sexism was usually towards women. Sexism often promote discrimination in jobs, discrimination from men to women through comments, and discrimination from every one through actions.

Discrimination, it has been part of human nature for a long time, especially relevant subject in literature such as To Kill a Mockingbird. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character of Scout Finch was exposed to different types of discrimination as she grows up. Discrimination affected the lives of characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird because of society’s prejudicial views of race, gender, and class.

Throughout the novel Scout was faced with many gender prejudice. Because she was a tomboy, Aunt Alexandra told scout that she can even hope to be a lady if she wore trousers. She expects Scout to play with stoves necklaces and tea pots. Aunt Alexandra wasn't the only person being prejudice against women. Atticus was also prejudice against women, even though he doesn't judge people. On page 221, he told Jem that women are not allowed to serve on juries in Alabama because the court might never get a complete case because the women would interrupt just to ask questions. Scout also showed gender prejudice to Francis. Francis told Scout that his grandmother was going to teach him how to cook and Scout said boys are not suppose to cook.

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 has always affected people to a certain extent in society. Whether it be in the form of class or racial discrimination, people experience it in their everyday lives. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee illustrates the dangers of judging others before getting to know who they are. She demonstrates discrimination through social classism, gossip, and racism and how these things can lead people to judge others before they know their story.

Discrimination and stereotypes are still involved in today's ever-growing society. People are judged by their race, gender, and, wealth; people are expected to act a certain way because of these things. In To Kill A Mockingbird it tells the readers about a small town, Maycomb, that faces many challenges because of how individuals are judged and treated. If someone were African American he/she would thought to be less of a person and were treated as if they were trash. If someone were to be a woman they were thought to be weak, emotional, and dramatic. If someone were poor he/she were thought to be dirty, rude and were treated like trash. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses stereotypes related to racism, gender, and wealth to teach her audience about how individuals were treated during the Great Depression.

" We came equals into this world, and equals we shall leave it, " - George Mason. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the whites clearly discriminate the blacks. They are treated unfairly and unjust. Readers are able to realize how bad the discrimination is once Tom Robinson had lost his court case. Readers who pay attention are able to still see how other groups and people are being discriminated today in modern society.

“To Kill A Mockingbird” is a book based in the town of Maycomb, Alabama and is narrated by a young girl named Scout. As Scout grows up in the book she is surrounded by mostly men for her mother had died at a young age and her family's maid was usually not being very involved in the games Scout and her brother - Jem - played. Over the summers Jem and Scout have spent in Maycomb, many of the ones described were shared with their friend Dill, who stayed with his Aunt every summer. As the summers go by, Dill and Jem start to exclude Scout because she is a girl. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” Scout faces an endless amount of mistreatment and exclusion all because she is a girl.

Discrimination is usually created by misguided fear and ignorance, which can lead to many problems inside of a society. These misperceptions are shown with numerous examples inside the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, with the most prominent examples being Boo Radley, the neighborhood misunderstood delinquent and the embodiment of unjustified prejudice, and Tom Robinson, an African American accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Through Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, Harper Lee shows how discrimination and prejudice can permeate even the kindest people and places and how common it is even in a society seen as normal by most people inside that same community.

Society is a field of discrimination that can’t be changed. Whether it be scapegoating, racism ,or anti-semitism, the books To kill a Mockingbird , When the Plague Strikes , and Anne Frank Diary of a Young girl it clearly represents how society strips away people's agency through discrimination and intolerance. In the book To kill a Mockingbird, it shows how society uses systematic racism and regular racism to limit the rights of those who are indifferent to us. In the book When Plague Strikes it shows how society uses scapegoating to blame the outcasts and discriminated for their own problems. In the book The Diary of a Young Girl, it is an example of how society uses anti-Semitism to ruin a young Jewish girl's life. This is what society

One of the pressing issues that To Kill A Mockingbird addresses is discrimination, prejudice, and the racism of people of the opposite color and class. And though the novel was written and published back in 1961, it is because of these themes and issues the novel explores that it still resonates with our world today, because it’s still happening today. Amazing, but it does make sense considering how Harper Lee, the author of said acclaimed novel, was born in 1926 in Alabama. She grew up in a community that was both suffering from the outcomes of the Great Depression (starting in 1929), and the high acts racism in those Southern parts. Using her own life experiences, she wrote the novel as a way of letting out steam, writing about the unfair

In 2009, Harper Lee’s bestselling novel To Kill a Mockingbird was banned in St. Edmund Campion Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario after a parent complained about the use of inappropriate language in the novel (Javed 2009). To Kill A Mockingbird, considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, is also one of the most controversial. According to the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, it is one of the most challenged and banned classic novels (Downs 2016). Although this novel has been banned in many schools and school boards across Canada and the United States because of “inappropriate racial and sexual content”, To Kill a Mockingbird thoroughly bespeaks the absurdity of the inequality and discrimination