Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

Depressions, wars, and other losses have contributed to the rising of inequality across America in the recent years. The middle and lower social classes have not recovered as quickly as the wealthier classes have. The rich continue to rise above the rest of the nation, continuing to increase the social gaps from the lower classes. Today inequality is what society is used to, and it will continue to get worse if this trend spreads, and is not

In To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, many themes are shown and many lessons are learned. However, the author uses the character of Tom Robinson to reveal inequality. How she does this is, when we are reading the book, we the readers get a great depiction of everybodys perspective. We see what it’s like for people of color and white people. To me, Tom Robinson is the best character in the book.

Economic class has been one of the reasons behind inequality and discrimination in our society. Inequality is one of the main issues in America, in which people are not provided with equal opportunities. Income inequality is increasing rapidly between people, as the economic progress for lower and middle class is not improving. As a result of income inequality, social inequality is increasing within a society. The difference in payment levels does not only affect the family status, but it also reduces their chances of affording health insurance and providing better education for their children.

Social inequality based entirely on race affects people who don’t deserve it. To Kill a Mockingbird original publication was in 1960, it is a classic novel written by Harper Lee, the book is set in 1933 to 1935. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama and follows two years in the life of 7-year old Scout Finch, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, an attorney who hopelessly strives to prove the innocence of a black man accused of rape. The book also talks about Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbour who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. The definition of social and legal codes are social codes made up of rules and standards, and a legal system is a code of laws made by a state or nation. Throughout the book, social and legal codes are exploited by people to help maintain their social status. In Maycomb County, social and legal laws harm black people to protect white people, such as Atticus Finch, Bob Ewell, and Tom Robinson.

To Kill a Mockingbird is the perfect representation of how life was in the 1930’s. During that time, there was racism, classism, and sexism. In Maycomb County, they call these inequalities, a disease. This disease can not be cured. Since it can not be cured, racism, classism, and sexism are still present today. Even though To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930’s, the extreme inequalities from that time are still deeply rooted in today’s society.

When you are stuck in a social class, for instance take mine; you are stuck in the position of constantly worrying about income. Your focus becomes so fixed on income that you barley have time to recap and ask your child about what they are learning. Questions such as, where is the mitochondria located and why is it important, may not come up. Now this is inequality is reproduced because we are constantly going to be stuck in this position. We, meaning those who are stuck in the poor and working class.

The last issue concerning wealth inequality is the health and well being of the lower class. The high rates of social problems: lower rates of performance in school, life expectancy, incarceration, teenage pregnancy along with health problems like obesity and heart disease are directly effected by the United States high inequality. The reason for poor school performance is that children of the lower class typically do not plan on going to college because they cannot afford it. If they do not plan on going to college, they don’t believe there is a reason to put a lot of effort and succeed in high school.

One theme of To Kill a Mockingbird, portrayed excellently by Harper Lee, is inequalities due to race and social class. For example, When going to Calpurnia’s church, Scout and Jem quickly noticed that ‘“there [wasn’t] any hymn-books’” (Lee 64). This relates back to the theme of inequalities due to race and social class because most of the black people couldn’t read so hymn-books would have been useless, but Scout and Jem, who are white children, can read and prefer using hymn-books. This shows how the black and white school systems are not fair and how much white education was far more superior to black education. Furthermore, When Tom Robinson went to court, it became clear that he did not rape Mayella Ewell. It was up to the jury to decide

A cause of income inequality could be the jobs that people have. “In the United States, income inequality, or the gap between the rich and everyone else, has been growing markedly… (Income Inequality, para 1).” There have been no signs of income inequality changing for the lower classes, or getting better, therefore, it has become a very concerned issue upon Americans. “America’s top ten percent now average at least nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent (Income Inequality, para 2).” Many people who have a big dream have jobs that pay minimum wage, which makes it hard. With the rich getting richer, it makes it hard for the lower classes to get a shot at being at the top with them. This also makes it hard to close the gap between the three classes.

To Kill a Mocking-Bird, illuminating the terrible class struggle for people living in 1930, America. The novel illustrates the alienation the lower class lived with whilst under a capitalist system run by merciless, American, white men. Differences in class are widely explored through the social hierarchy in Southern America, Maycomb. It is important to note that the book can be interpreted differently, depending on the class of the reader, as it could be said the novel is influenced itself, by the writer Harper Lee. Though much focus has been given to the clear racism present in the novel, class exploitation is evident all the way through, this idea Marx stated is the ultimate source of profit for the capitalist, the driving force behind this

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

Gender inequality and race inequality are similar and different in that they are both unjust, however race inequality plays a more prominent unjust theme in the time and setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Both black people and women dealt with stereotypes, like being a woman associated with being useless, a gossip, and delusional and being a black person meant you are uneducated. These stereotypes led to the word “female” or “n*gger” or black an offensive term. These connotations made being a woman or a black person less worthy. These connotations and stereotypes invalidated a woman’s or black person's word, these stereotypes and connotations led to their word being less true or important than a white mans, even in court. Gender inequality

Inequality is a theme that runs throughout all of history. Harper Lee uses the theme of inequality in her book, To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson must deal with inequality when he is accused of a crime he didn’t commit because no one will trust a black man over a white man. The Cunningham family must face discrimination because of their lack of money. Scout even faces inequality when she tries to play with Jem and Dill. The theme of inequality is a strong one in Lee’s book, and her use of inequality doesn’t only define racism, but also discrimination based on wealth and gender.

Social inequality is defined as the unequal distribution of social and economical resources. There are unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions and statuses within a group or society. Because there is social inequality, people have less life chances meaning less educational and occupational opportunities, which prevents movement on the social ladder. This gives authority to the rich because the rich own the means of production, giving capitalists the power to exercise it by exploiting the poor working class. An individual interest and not that of a community drive the rich. Such differences degrade and stigmatize the social class with less money and opportunities causing social stratification.

Inequality in the society has been an issue since the history of the universe and as we think we are bridging the gap between the rich and the poor we always find out that it is as a wide as it was. The poor will always exist in the society as the inferior group while the rich are the superiors who control various aspects and sectors of the society.