The Role Of Society In To Kill A Mockingbird

As a child grows, many people influence their development as a person. Some people impact more than others, and a select few really leave their mark. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” several characters play this role. Among them, Miss Maudie Atkinson, a woman who proves herself a strong character, prevails as the one who has the greatest impact on Scout Finch, the protagonist of this novel. As Scout matures and grows up, her views on the world around her change. Through subtle yet effective ways, Miss Maudie teaches Scout many life lessons about being humble, judging, and attitude, all of which ultimately have a great effect on the kind of person Scout develops into and her outlook on the world.

thing during and following slavery. In the novel, a man named Bob Ewell despises black people and calls out Atticus by saying, “too proud to fight, you nigger lovin bastard?” (Lee, 291). What that quote is saying is how Bob is getting upset with atticus just because he is Tom Robinson's lawyer and Bob Ewell doesn’t like black people. Another example of racism occurs in chapter 11. This happens when the kids are walking by Mrs.Dubose’s home, and she starts yelling out racist comments about Atticus. She yells out to Jem and says, “your father is no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” (Lee, 105) She attacks their father for doing his job, but even more so attacks Jem and Scout by Yelling furiously about their father. These two ways are clearly shown in To Kill A Mockingbird and there are many other ways throughout the novel.

Anthony Storr says that, “Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms “ Social norms imply that everyone is the same or does something the same way, to break that you need to go out of your comfort zone and be bold enough to break those norms. Although it is very common for there to be social norms in society, when someone breaks one it can be the very first step to making the world a better place.

Everyone in the world has their own identity; have you ever thought about what your identity is? Identity plays a big role in the world especially in America where not all identities are good. People might identify a wealthy person as “snotty rich” or a poor person as “defective” or maybe someone calls a man a woman when they're really a man. Or maybe you call someone a terrorist just because they are middle eastern. The list goes on and on and thats why social forces influence identities and can become dangerous. Gender, race, and social class are all forms of social forces.

From reading To Kill a Mockingbird, I learned that racism is very harmful to the people it affects, that it was a huge issue at that time, and that it was considered a part of everyday life in the South. I also learned that there is more to a person than meets the eye and you will never know a person’s entire story, so you should always be kind and compassionate to them.

When real life problems are seen from the perspective of a child, they often change the child in dramatic ways. Such is the case in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a story narrated by a young girl living in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The young girl, Scout, lives with her brother and father, a lawyer who is defending a black man accused of raping a woman from town. In the beginning of the story Scout spends her time playing silly games around the house and yard with her brother Jem and neighbor Dill. As she becomes more aware of the social bias and racial tensions that are building in the small town, Scout and her world begin to change. Although Scout may not fully understand the ins and outs of the real world, she

Experiences are what shape and define who people are, what they have done, and what they will do. Throughout Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee writes about just what kind of experiences can shape the main characters of her novel. Not everyone will be influenced by others, but many personas will change drastically from beginning to end. This is true in the real world as well when we forget who we are and allow the public to change us to how they see fit. The main examples of this are shown in Scout, Jem, and many other secondary characters. Scout will change the most through her father, Atticus. Jem however, does more changing by himself when he sees the

An individual's views are heavily impacted by society's principles. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the ways that an individual is influenced by society's dominant views are explored via various literary techniques. Another text that does this is Orange is the New Black, directed by Jenji Kohan, in particular, episodes 10 and 11 of season 3. Both composers have expressed the ways in which society's hegemonic standards regarding racism and gender have impacted an individual's self beliefs.

During the book To Kill a Mockingbird there are many life-lessons to be learned by younger characters like Scout and Jem. The book takes place in the south of United States during the 1930’s and there are many social problems such as poverty, racism and religious issues that these children don’t understand really well in the beginning of the book . Throughout the story, Scout and Jem grow from immature children to become mature teenagers with their own and more developed opinions about 1930’s society. Many characters in the book influenced this growth of maturity in the children, such as Atticus, by being the only person in the town to stand up for a black men and seeing both races as equal; Calpurnia, by showing the children how the black society works; and Miss Maudie, by teaching them a lot about the town and its social problems. Most other people in the town discriminate against the black

The world challenges the limits of everyone's vision to widen our views. What you see depends on how you look at it, and the angle in which you are looking at it from. In order for the world around us to change; we must ready ourselves for change too. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is narrated through the eyes of Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, but has an unexpected component. It is written from Scout's point of view as a child and as an adult. This combination adds tremendously to the novel’s motif of maturity, and challenges the reader to She tells the story as an adult Scout had finally done what Atticus has been urging her to do throughout most of the book. She placed herself in someone else's shoes to see the world through their eyes.-

In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is about a girl named Scout telling the story of how her older brother Jem broke his arm. Scout went from innocent to experiencing hate, racism, and threat by other people. As she explains how it all happened, she tends to be in difficult situations with her brother Jem and experienced a few threats by her classmates and adults. Her father; Atticus, was a lawyer who was criticized by the entire white race because he defended a black man in court. Scout was a bright child who knew how to read at a young age and tend to understand all things she's been taught, but there were some things she did not fully understand until she had to experience them.

To Kill a Mockingbird Society has a strong influence on our children nowadays. The people we are in the past, has built what they are now and shaped them to either be heroes or dropouts. It is said that the people one socializes with, changes them; teaches them. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, his characters Scout and Jem Finch are shaped by the characters they are interacted with in the novel. The siblings change due to the characters, Dill Harris, Calpurnia, and Atticus Finch in ways they could not imagine as kids.

Throughout the film To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many themes and important sociological concepts. Three sociological concepts that will be applied to the film are racism, prejudice, and social stratification. Racism can be defined as the attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics (Giddens, Dumeier, Appelbaum, and Carr 2014). Any belief or attitude that favors one racial group over another is an example of racism (Dykstra-Crookshanks, 2015). Racism is a branch term of prejudice that looks at the variety of distinctions between individuals (Giddens et al. 2014).

There are many ways to negatively influence someone, but the most effective form of influence has to be when the society around somebody does it. That is what I’ll be addressing in this essay, as it pertains to how it affected Mayella Ewell in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and how it holds up to/compares to Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. I’ll be pointing out their generational influences, and their influences from society overall. This will answer the burning question as to how society made them commit the actions they did against the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Robinson. One glaring problem that society has that clearly affected Mayella Ewell, Victoria Price, and Ruby Bates was its complete dismissal and isolation of theirs (and others) bad actions.

Society shaped and influenced Scout in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by showing her what it means to accept others and turning her into a much more accepting and open-minded individual. For example on page 33 Scout says “He ain’t company Cal, he’s just a Cunningham.” In other words, Scout is saying that walter Cunningham isn’t considered company in her eyes, he’s just a member of the Cunningham household and that’s it. I interpret this to mean that Scout is unable to see Walter for who he is as a person and only sees his family name. It reveals that Scout is very narrow-minded at that time.