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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.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus and Aunt Alexandra influence the kids by teaching them and making them feel how others do. They go through tough experiences which causes them to grow. Also, by looking at other’s action and the explanations that Atticus gives Jem and Scout. Alike outside of the book, people go through hard moments and learn from them. For example, on page 294 of the novel TKAM Atticus says “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their head- they couldn’t be fair if they tried.” He is explaining to Jem why the trial went like that. Because of racism. After the explanation of his dad, Jem started to realize that maybe Boo Radley didn’t want to go out because people don’t get along and he didn’t

To Kill a Mockingbird, a southern-gothic story, shows the view of life in the 1930’s. This story is told in the eyes of Jem and Scout and how their views changed as they grew up in the town of Maycomb. Scout is a young girl who is growing up surrounding the contentions of her father’s lawsuit. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who is defending a black man in charge of a white girl’s rape. This essay will show how the lives of the people in Maycomb are affected by discrimination and prejudice in Tom Robinson’s case, Calpurnia’s church and the Verdict.

The very concept of killing a mockingbird is obviously wrong and immoral, no oppression should be celebrated or even commonplace. During the early stages of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird(1960), the reader is suggested an initial sense of ignorance and fear. The coming of age story gives a reflection of small town living from a young, nonconforming girls point of view. We watch at the pace of a slow southern drawl as Scout and her brother Jem’s world flips upside down. Maycomb has a tendency to create a standard or a system of status that can only possibly fit the people they agree with, these standards cast the oppressed out of society, just as a hunter of ignorance does with the life of a Mockingbird. By witnessing the injustices of the prior generation in Maycomb, Scout learns that differences can be celebrated and that we stand stronger together.

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is historically accurate because the African Americans were considered to be below the white man during the 1930’s. An African American life was lived with especial difficulty since they were only offered the low paying jobs and neighborhoods that nobody cared. In comparison, white men were offered a good education and high paying jobs. A black man once said, “The American white man has been superior so long, he can’t figure out why he should come down” (Burke). African Americans were always treated like they had a lower status than the white man, even when they first came to America. Although slavery had been abolished in 1865, the white Americans did everything in its power

Many ideas change with time. Including, how races interact with each other. Race relations changed between the 20th and 21st century. A couple of prime examples of change are The Scottsboro Trials, Emmett Till Murder Trial, Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, and The George Zimmerman Trial. Now as the thought of how race interactions happened have changed. The world today and it events prior to it have shaped how people interact. In history, we have always had a problem with race. Race may be a small thing to think of ,but it always can be found right in front of our eyes.

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, tells the story of a little girl named Scout. Set in Alabama in the 1930s, Maycomb county, Scout’s home, is a sleepy place, that hides a dark streak of racism. Maycomb gets pulled into a whirlwind court case of sexual assault consisting of an African American man getting accused of beating and raping a white girl. Scout, whose father defended the African American, learns of the deep problems in society. Still in the mindset of constant racism, the jury ruled against the black man, even though the evidence clearly proved that the girl’s father beat her. Unfortunately, this racism survives today, and one only has to take a peek at the news, or a glance outside to notice it. Racism still exists today, as seen through brutality against

“To kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is an exploration of human morality, Atticus father of Jem and Scout demonstrates the role of a teacher to his children and to his town. Atticus believes that people poses aspects of both good and evil but that good will usually prevail. Atticus teaches his children and his town when he defends Tom Robinson, who is an innocent black man accused of raping a white woman. To kill a mocking bird takes place in Maycomb, a racist town in the deep south of the United States during the Great Depression, this is a tough task for Atticus because he must overcome the ingrained racism and try to change people’s social perspectives

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the characters Scout and Jem have changed a lot in the two years they have lived. Scout was six and now she’s nine and Jem is four years older and the story covers about three more years of their lives. There are dramatic changes for the kids and behaviors of the children during the crucial years for them, but they know how to cope with them. They learn a lot of life lessons throughout the story.

Harper Lee continually utilizes topics of classism and racism to frame the way the children are being taught from many influential interactions in this novel. Aunt Alexandra reinforces classism as the ideal world when she disapproves of Scout’s convening with Walter. Referencing the Cunninghams, Aunt Alexandra replies, “Because he is trash… I’ll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord knows what…there is no doubt in my mind that they’re good folks, but they’re not our kind of folks.” (299-301) Scout is faced with a moral dilemma when these conflicting perspectives arise as she begins to realize that judging someone as good or bad is an incomplete assessment as shades of grey exist. This idea of separation is also held by Lula, a black woman, which is made apparent when Calpurnia brings Scout and Jem to her church. Calpurnia defends the children’s right to worship in the African church when Lula approaches them, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here—they got their church. We got our’n…” This showed the kids that black people, whom carried most of the weight of discrimination, could also encourage and uphold this division.

The novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird” is based in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. When slavery and the Civil War were still present in the people’s way of living and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s are far from close. The novel focuses on the Finches: Scout, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, and the trial of Tom Robinson and how it affected them and the town. Witnessing the injustice of Tom Robinson’s trial changed Scout Finch in many ways. Scout learns that there is more than one type of courage, she learns about race and its complexity, and she also changes how she views the people around her by putting herself

When I was in my teens, I got into a gang and caused lots of problems all over Maycomb County. The stories that go around about it, have most likely been altered. My friends and I stole a car and were driving around the square when the sheriff tried to arrest us. Obviously, nobody wanted to go to jail and since we were “bad” kids, we locked him in the outhouse. The children that live a few houses down the street and the entire community never came around my house. I've heard from my father and brother that the neighbors think i'm 6 and a half feet tall, have rotting yellow teeth, eat raw animals and am mentally insane. When I was in my 30’s, I was sitting in the livingroom cutting out articles and different pictures for my scrap book and when my father walked by me I drove

In the novel to kill a mockingbird written by Harper Lee the theme of discrimination and mistreatment based off race was portrayed through several characters throughout the novel, Scout and Jem , are cared for by Calpurnia, their black housekeeper. Although Scout shares her differences with Calpurnia, Calpurnia acts as a mother-figure to jem and scout. She is respected by Atticus, who recognises that Calpurnia has an education. it is the way of speaking that creates a boundary between the black community and the white. When jem and scout go to calpurnia 's church service, Scout notes that Calpurnia embraces a different way of speaking when she is communicating with other churchgoers: “ Calpurnia led a modest double life never dawned on me. The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages”. Although Scout and Jem find the concept that Calpurnia speaks two different “languages” difficult to understand, Scout has a great admiration and respect for Calpurnia for grasping both languages.The trial of Tom Robinson demonstrates many counts of racism. Tom is prosocuted for raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. The Ewell family lack education and financial stability, voicing the lower class. As the oldest of eight children , Mayella becomes a mother figure and role model for her younger siblings.

Though Calpurnia and the people involved in Calpurnia’s life are greatly impacted, Jean Louise Finch, a.k.a. Scout, deals with more confusion and frustration brought on by racial discrimination. During a day at school, Scout encountered Cecil Jacobs and his ignorant mind. “Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more… I soon forgot. Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defends niggers”(Lee 99). Scout did not realize what this meant, but she was hurt by it any way. Scout is affected by a copious amount of racism, she just has no clue what is zipping around her. When she confronted Atticus about him defending Negroes, he said of course he does, and to not use

While one of the main themes of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is understanding another human’s perspective, it is also important to look at how people treat each other. The story’s protagonist, Scout, is a young girl from Alabama whose father, Atticus Finch, is asked to defend an African-American man who is charged with rape. The southern way of life during The Great Depression will not allow Tom Robinson a fair trial, and Scout and her brother Jem are forced to deal with a county’s ignorance and racist attitudes. Atticus and a compassionate neighbor, Miss Maudie, try to teach the children not to hurt mockingbirds as they do not harm anything and “... don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”(90). While the comparison of a mockingbird to Tom Robinson illustrates the sin of hurting the innocent, it is also used to show the goodness of an unknown neighbor, Boo Radley.