Immunizing Society Against Discrimination

Have you ever seen a mad dog? If you have then you know that it cannot be ignored and it must be dealt with quickly before someone gets hurt. Mad dogs don’t think straight because their minds are infected with a disease, much like people who have been filled with racist ideas. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the literary elements of character, conflict, and setting develop the theme that racism is a disease that has to be dealt with before it takes over. The mad dog had to be dealt with fast so that no one was hurt by it and so no one was affected by this disease that inflicted a poor dog that did nothing wrong.

Prejudice is one of the world’s greatest struggles. It does not only hold society back, but is harmful to the people who do good .In Harper Lee’s book To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem live through and witness prejudice and racism in the small town of Maycomb. They see someone wrongly accused of a crime because of his race. Scout and Jem also witness and take part in prejudice against a man no one knows anything about. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee uses characterization to show the negative effects of prejudice and racism.

Crazy; a term used frequently in this essay. Crazy is something people try to avoid. When people try to avoid going crazy, it will chew them from the inside and eventually take over, for Atticus not so much. He doesn’t care what people think. Atticus is like the mad dog. Tim Johnson, The Mad Dog, is a small character in To Kill a Mockingbird. He is a dog with rabies. Everybody in town tell people to stay away from. He is no good, and the disease will spread to you. You could the disease from him. Sound like another person? Atticus is looked at like the dog by a lot of people in town, why wouldn’t they at him in a different way he is different, who are thinking of him the way they think of the dog, that is diseased for liking black people. This topic could connect to, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, this book is about a black family owning land the 1930’s. They are threatened by local white poles. The main girl, Cassie, in the book, who is also the narrator, is trying to understand why the white people are being so rude. Eventually she finds out it’s because she is different, like Atticus. The Dog, Atticus, Cassie are all the same because everyone hates them though they did nothing. They use nonviolence, Cassie’s doesn’t do it very

Discrimination and prejudice against blacks was a huge point in this story with blacks being considered animals and trash and anyone who defends them such as Atticus to be given the same treatment from the people who discriminate blacks.

As children grow up, they open their eyes to the harsh truths in the world around them that they once did not understand or question. This is experienced by the main characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is of a girl called Scout and her older brother, Jem, who go through the trials of growing up in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Racism is rampant in the mindset of the townspeople, shown when the children’s lawyer father, Atticus, takes the case of an obviously innocent African-American man and they convict him in their hearts before the trial even starts. Through this all, we can see the theme of loss of innocence in the children. Lee uses characterization to portray

Racism has the power to change anybody’s life. Jem Finch is a young teen character from To Kill a Mockingbird who longed for the warm summer days when he could just play on the lawn and not care about the future. However, as the novel progresses, it becomes clear that he cannot just play around when he knows what is going on around him and what is happening to the black community of Maycomb, Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a success in the world of literature. Set in the 1930’s down south where racism was rampant, Harper Lee shows us the challenges of growing up in a community of inequality through the characters Jem and Scout Finch. Jem is older than Scout by 3 years so he understands how serious the nature of racism is and

The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a simplistic view of life in the Deep South of America in the 1930s. An innocent but humorous stance in the story is through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a young adolescent who is growing up with the controversy that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man, Tom Robinson, with the charge of raping a white girl. The lives of the characters are changed by racism and this is the force that develops during the course of the narrative.

Imagine a world where evil and unjust actions are based on the color of skin; a world where some don’t even realize that they are prejudicing. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, these themes are present. People and how they commit evil, hypocritical, and unjust acts. We see these themes and great issues through the point of view of a child; the vigorous, youthful, elementary-aged Scout. Through this character Harper Lee shows the innocence of children, and what they go through in our inequitable world.

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a powerful novel that explores the widespread racial discrimination in 1930’s Alabama. Throughout the novel rarely is Alabama’s racism bridged, with the exception of three main protagonists Scout Finch, her brother Jem Finch and their Father Atticus. Lee’s use of symbolism, foreshadowing and irony present the consequences of the loss of innocence and the penalties that racial prejudice can have on a community.

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless American classic that has been appreciated and loved by readers for decades. Harper Lee explores the story of a lawyer and his family in the deep parts of the South who is given the task of defending a black man accused with the rape of an adolescent white girl. Atticus Finch, the father of the protagonist and narrator Scout Finch, represents an elite group of minds that see beyond the invisible lines of race and wish to treat everyone with respect and equality. Atticus faces a series of external and internal struggles that brings meaning to the novel and reveals the overarching themes of the novel. Through several

As the United States “progresses” in economic, educational and technological advancements we still are fighting for racial equality. With more than 50 years since the brown vs. board of education case there is still incidents like Ferguson, Baton Rouge, and Phiando Castile where many questions are still unanswered. However, Harper Lee dealt with these same problems in 1960 when she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee created an emotionally confronting story. Lee writes through the eyes of “Scout” a lawyer’s daughter in a small sleepy town of Maycomb in Alabama during the great depression. Throughout the book “Scout” learns coming of age lessons from Atticus and her own experiences. But when Atticus takes on a case defending a black man (Tom Robinson) convicted for rapping a white woman (Mayella Ewell) and is found guilty. “Scout” her brother Jem begin to understand the effects of the prejudices in society. Therefore, Lee applies the literary concepts of diction and tone to revel the truth that prejudices in society negatively affect the way people treat each other in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

The Novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is story about two young kids, Jem and Scout, who are raised by their a father Atticus in a town called Maycomb during the 1930’s. The family sees a different side of the town when a case is brought into town and Atticus, the father has to defend a black man. One of the main themes in the story is racism and one can see that from the very start. The influence on the two children Jem and Scout ironically helps them. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the racist views of Maycomb throughout the story aids the development of Jem and Scout by forcing them to grow up, mature and develop an understanding for their towns beliefs as well as their own.

In the riveting coming-of-age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee projects the idea of acceptance of all people, through the eyes of a child. Harper Lee combats the prejudice of social standing when she proves that some of the poorest people have the best of character traits. While racism of African Americans is first and foremost in this novel, the acceptance of white people into the African American community shows racism can be beaten from both point of views. Finally, the disabilities that Arthur Radley portrays, is forgotten, when his actions help him soar above the bigotry of the people of Maycomb County. The most obvious topic is the overt racism based on a person's skin color, however, Harper Lee takes us beneath the skin to show that discrimination occurs in other ways.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem’s perception of the world evolves to be more unbalanced, yet becomes more accepting despite growing being raised in a community of discrimination. The author wanted to reveal what it is like for a child to develop in a narrow-minded society filled with racism and segregation.

1. Miss Maudie destroys nut grass and a mad dog that Atticus kills in this novel that Harper Lee created. Miss Maudie loves everything about her garden but hates nut grass. The blade of nut grass can be easily spread all over her garden and even all over the Maycomb. It is small but it can ruin her garden so she must destroy at once without hesitation. Atticus kills mad dog named Tim Johnson because it is a diseased animal that can be infectious but also the possibility of violence. The common thing between both nut grass and the mad dog is that it can be spread easily, a threat to one’s living and that expertise, or experienced person can get rid of this threat. In this scenario, Miss Maudie is capable of destroying the nut grass and “the best shooter of Maycomb” Atticus has the ability to shoot the mad dog. This is a strong symbolism in my opinion. Nut grass is symbolic of her belief that racism in Maycomb can’t be eradicated by pulling from the top but from its origin to stop. The book also states that Maycomb disease is the racism, the disease can be spread easily like the nut grass. The mad dog has a human name, Tim Johnson. The author is trying to plot a death of one’s living. It isn’t a coincidence that the dog is black and has a similar name with Tom Robinson that has been killed. The symbolism here is that it is a misconception of a black society. The mad dog is the black society and the shooter is the white society. Black society, people always get a