Prejudice And Injustice

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is set during the early 20th Century in the fictional town of Maycomb. Lee has decided to write the novel from a child’s point of view because a child is innocent but as the novel progresses the narrator, Scout, loses her innocence as she deals with the complications of her father being a lawyer. The novel revolves around racism and Scout sees discrimination wherever she goes whether it is racial or social prejudice. The town’s people agree with the idea that whites are superior to blacks. An example of this is when Atticus, Scout’s father, has to defend a black man who is accused of raping Bob Ewell’s daughter.

Although some people think that the problems of civil rights is gone, it is more present than ever. Racial discrimination is occurring in many ways and prejudice is a huge contributing factor which many people don’t realize. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows a family in the South during the 1930’s, experience prejudice at the extreme. Young Scout, who is the narrator, lives in Maycomb, Alabama where there is a lot of racism. Because of this, many problems erupt when people try to change the towns ways. Scout grows throughout the book as she experiences many events that test her strength. In the novel, Lee uses the characterization of Scout to demonstrate that innocent children who witness cruelty, often question

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. It is narrated by the main character who is a little girl named Jean Louise Finch aka “Scout”. Scout has a father named Atticus who is a lawyer and an older brother. The Finch’s are a white family and when Atticus goes to defend a black man, the whole town is shocked.This novel has tons of racism. Racism is an issue that is still current. Large amounts of racism are expressed in the novel still happens today through racial profiling, police brutality, and segregation.

Often our prejudices are based on their colour, religion, gender, age. “Prejudice is a part of life and there is nothing we can do to change it”. This quote is only half true, true in the first half ‘prejudice is a part of life’ but wrong in saying ‘there is nothing we can do to change it’. We may not be able to stop people from being pre-judged, but there is always a way to make people look and think about things from a different perspective. One person can change another person’s judgement. People in a position of power often abuse it.

Decades ago, in the 1930s, people of color were not treated fairly. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird took place in the 1930s in the fictional place of Macomb County, Alabama. It was narrated through a young girl named Scout Finch. Throughout the novel, Scout, her older brother, Jem, and their good friend Dill discover realities of society. Scout and Jem’s father, Atticus, was appointed to be the attorney of a black man. Because of the time period, the case was almost hopeless, but Atticus fought anyway. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird displays universal themes such as racial intolerance and innocence of youth.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was an influential study of race relations in America in the mid 20th century. The development of the main character, Scout, is closely tied to what she learns from Atticus, her father, and what she learns from watching the unjust treatment of Tom Robinson, who is a black gentleman accused of rape that Atticus decides to defend in a court case. As Scout grows up, she is forced to deal with prejudice that every person living in Maycomb, Alabama seems to demonstrate in their everyday life. When Atticus agreed to represent Tom Robinson, he likely knew that many town people would resent any attempt to prove Tom Robinson was innocent. In this novel, Scout learns that there are right and wrong times when one should

To Kill A Mockingbird is an iconic novel written to discuss the issues of racial injustices during the 1960’s. The book is written from the view of an optimistic six year old girl, scout, her innocence to the real world makes her blind to the problem of racism. During this time it was common for blacks to lose in lawsuits against whites, one of the most well known cases is Plessy vs Ferguson.

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

In To Kill A Mockingbird depicts the story of a southern childhood. Though, this isn’t your typical childhood tale. The young girl and protagonist, Scout faces many different situations of racism and prejudice throughout the novel. This is similar to the racism and prejudice that came along with the making of Jim Crow Laws.

‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee in 1960 is a novel set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story follows Scout Finch, the daughter of Atticus Finch, a well-respected lawyer who is defending an African American man against the charges of rape. The characters in this novel are constructed in such a way that through their actions, appearances and attitudes the issue of racism in the 1930s arises quite clearly. Harper Lee has used the contrast between characters in certain events to inform and shape the readers view of just how bad racial issues were in society during the 1930s.

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, has sold forty million copies since its publication in 1960. This controversial novel is about a southern white girl named Scout Finch, who, in her small, racist hometown, grows up during a brutal racial trial for an innocent black man accused of rape. During this time period, Scout matures and, with the guidance of her father, Atticus, realizes the evil of racial stereotypes. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses literary devices such as characterization and motif to show the evils of racism and to convey the theme that, as one grows, his or her eyes open and realize that everyone has differences, but all share a common humanity.

In our society today the racism cannot compare to the racism and prejudice that African American’s had to face throughout the 1800’s and on. This topic is a prominent point in the development of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book focuses on the hardships of a young girl, Scout, during the years of the depression. Her family is greatly impacted by specific laws set out for coloured people called the “Jim Crow Laws”. Throughout a trial that her father is involved in, we see the rights that are violated when it comes to black people.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that is a wonderful exploration of racism and brutality in primarily white, southern towns. The main character, Scout Finch, is a little girl who doesn’t quite understand everything she sees and hears, creating an effect where the reader recognizes what’s happening while Scout isn’t always aware of the severity of the situation. Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer representing an African American man named Tom Robinson for supposedly raping a white woman. During the trial, it becomes clear that that the white woman and her family are lying, but Tom is still convicted. This is the climax of the novel and it’s the most focused-upon act of cruelty throughout the book.

This to me means that, the world has told what to be or what I could be me because of my skin color, back ground, where am from, but God has told me that I can be anything that I won’t to be as long as I do it for him. The world want’s to keep me in a certain place, so they can have control of me, they wont to keep me in a corner to keep a watch on me, and as soon as I move they look at me where you going, you don’t need to do that. They have this book that I like to call the black bible, telling you that this is how black people should live and it was written by black people, the book tells you how you should dress, talk, walk, music, do and how you should feel towards white people and what white people think of you. The book was written by

One of the major theories for reducing prejudice and conflict is that groups who are in conflict should