Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned and/or challenged over thirty times since its publication in 1960. Effectively preventing many students from enjoying the novel and benefitting from its message. To ignore racism is no different than denying it ever existed. To Kill a Mockingbird is appropriate for mature adolescence/students and should not be banned from schools. Despite its sexual related content, or profanity, a valuable lesson remains that should be taught to students.

Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is set in a small, southern town, Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The story is told through the eyes of a girl named Scout about her father, Atticus, an attorney who strives to prove the innocence of a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape and Boo Radley, an enigmatic neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. Atticus does his job in proving there was no way that Tom Robinson was guilty during his trial, but despite Tom Robinson’s obvious innocence, he is convicted of rape as it is his word against a white woman’s. Believing a “black man’s word” seemed absurd as segregation was a very integrated part of life in the south. The social hierarchy must be maintained at all costs and if something in the system should testify the innocence of a black man against a white woman’s word and win then what might happen next? Along with the prejudice amongst blacks and whites, the story also showed how people could be misunderstood for who they truly are such as Boo Radley. Without ever seeing Boo, Jem and the townsfolk made wild assumptions on what Boo does or looks like. Even so, while “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows the ugliness that can come from judging others, its ultimate message is that great good can result when one defers judgement until considering things from another person’s view. Walter Cunningham, Mrs. Dubose, and Boo Radley are all examples of how looking at things

Based on the first six chapter of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, we can see that it moves at a rapid pace. It starts off as the beginning of summer and by the end of the sixth chapter an entire year has passed by. Throughout this year, we see Scout 's, Dill 's, and Jem 's adventures during the summers and Scout going to school for the first time. We also receive some additional background information on the mysterious Arthur "Boo" Radley.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by harper Lee, The story of a southern life in Maycomb during the mid-1930s you begin an exploration of human morality. Each character has morals on how to treat some one of the other race. Atticus and Bob Ewell are two characters with contrasting morals. Tom Robertson an African American male is court between both of them and is dependent the towns social morals in a court case.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudice and racism are embedded in the regional psyche of Maycomb, a miniscule town in Alabama. The narrator interpolates injustice and racism in Alabama during the 1930s, largely through the eyes of Scout, who was a child during this time, however, the adult Scout occasionally interjects with some adult observations. Furthermore, the citizens of Maycomb are stereotyped pervasively throughout the book. In Harper Lee’s To Kill Mockingbird, examples of racism, sexism, and social class are used to demonstrate how prejudice can corrupt a community.

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.

One of the many reasons this book is still talked about almost 60 years later is that racism is still an overwhelming problem. Lee’s outstanding novel is set in the 1930’s in small town Maycomb, Alabama. It shows how the town is impacted by racism through the thoughts, memories and experiences of Scout Finch. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the motif of racism is demonstrated by the Finch children’s experiences at First Purchase, Dolphus Raymond’s actions, and Atticus Finch’s opinions on racism in order to illustrate that racism divides all.

“It is better one hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer” (Benjamin Franklin). Sleepy Maycomb, like other Southern towns, suffers considerably during the Great Depression. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows that poverty reaches from the privileged families, like the Finches, to the Negroes and “white trash” Ewells, who live on the outskirts of town. Harper Lee paints a vivid picture of life in this humid Alabama town where tempers and bigotry explode into conflict. The main conflict of the book revolves around a man named Tom Robinson, who is accused of a crime. This novel is revolved around three central themes: racism, poverty, and domestic violence.

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, located in Alabama. Atticus is a lawyer in Maycomb, and is also one of the most important characters in the novel; he is also the father of both Scout and Jem. Atticus tries to raise his kids to have very good morals, and to respect everyone regardless of any of their differences including the colour of their skin. It is obvious that throughout the novel Atticus demonstrates many excellent qualities such as courage, integrity and perseverance that overall make him a very good and admirable character.

Maycomb, is a segregated, urban area located in Southern Alabama. The small town is filled with black citizens, that are victims of racial discrimination and have their rights stripped from away them because of their skin colour. To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), takes place throughout the Great Depression and unveils many secrets, untold truths about the life of citizens and explores the struggles dark skin people faced during the Great Depression.The novel is a simplistic view of life in the Deep South of America in the 1930s, which reflects racial and social prejudice, discrimination between blacks and whites. The book is narrated by a young girl named Scout who matures throughout the novel, from an innocent child to a morally conscience young adult. Harper Lee develops concepts by using language forms and features to highlight dominant themes of the novel such as racism. Racism in TKAM has different effects on different characters, such as Tom Robinson, Jem and Scout. Dark skin people faced many hardships throughout the Great Depression, in this novel anyone who was coloured or had connections or relations to coloured people, struggled to have the right to life due to them being black, this had many effects on different characters.

Small town Maycomb is in depression which makes it even harder on the people who live there. Harper Lee shows the troubles that Maycomb faces in it’s little town involving racism, poverty, and domestic violence spreading it all throughout the book. Consequences, with the town’s people like Atticus Finch a privileged man helping a black man causing racism, and getting Young Scout and Jem Finch caught up in the “usual disease” Tom Robinson a black man in poverty for the rape of Mayella Ewell the poorest family in Maycomb for domestic violence bringing the negro’s together to have respect for Atticus. Bringing tempers and chaos to the town’s people all over Maycomb.

​In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee accurately depicts life in 1930’s Alabama. Towns were filled with prejudice and many forms of tension, and this novel shows many examples of them. Racial prejudice was shown among the town of Maycomb and is the largest source of agitation throughout the book; the Tom Robinson trial is a great example of this. Suspicion and class prejudice also play a very large role and involves the Radley’s and many other families among Maycomb. The pressure to become a lady causes great hostility between Scout and her Aunt Alexandra. Maycomb’s populous shows these antagonisms with great ease. As the story unfolds, many characters pay their price for actions.

Harper Lee's ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ explores the prejudicial issues which plague over the town Maycomb. Harper Lee uses the trial of Tom Robinson a black man accused of rape on a young white girl, Mayella as a central theme to portray the prominence of racial discrimination in Maycomb. The racial prejudice is also widely shown through the characterisation of Atticus. Having Scout as the narrator allows Harper Lee to highlight the gender inequity through a youthful unbiased perspective. The chauvinistic attitudes and prejudiced views of most of the town’s folk leaves Maycombs social hierarchy in an unfair order, victimising many of the town’s people due to their socially non-conforming habits some ‘socially unaccepted people’ including Boo

Determined through wealth, income and status, Maycomb creates defined levels of class in which members of society long to maintain or reach their spot at the top. Low in class, the Cunninghams, a family of farmers, lose all they have in the Stock Market Crash, which leaves them with very little. “He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham-” (33). Scout see’s that her new first grade teacher, Miss Caroline, does not understand the levels of society and tries to offer Walter Cunningham money for lunch. The Cunninghams do not take money because they cannot pay back what they have borrowed.Due to Scout speaking up for Walter, she gets in trouble from Miss Caroline. Jem invites Walter for dinner and Scout notices that he eats differently than they eat and she makes a rude remark regarded towards him. Scout knows how low in class they are and refuses to admit that he is their company after Calpurnia mentions he is. Scout gets caught up in society 's standards and her innocent mind grabs onto do what those around her do and believe is right. She thinks that Walter does not deserve to be treated like company and since he is a Cunningham, he does not need to be treated well because of how low in class he is. Scout does not fully understand how defined the lines between classes are and how much importance society puts onto the social hierarchy system and as a result she is under the influence of the corrupted adults in Maycomb. As Scout grows and matures,