The Theme of Inequality in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee draws many parallels to real life, but one of the most relevant themes is social injustice. Social injustice has been society’s disease for as long as mankind has existed, from the cavemen, to the indigenous people of America, to today in modern society. Communities tend to turn a blind eye to the hateful words that are weapons in disguise, and literature is one of the only places where the raw and uncensored truth is revealed. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird

are being represented over others in schools. Two such works that have become highly regarded in education in America are Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Therefore, the question “Why is To Kill a Mockingbird read more widely in American schools than The Color Purple?” needs to be studied, given that “by the close of the 1980s, Lee's story was mandatory reading in seventy percent of all public schools” (Halpern, 743). To begin, it is important to understand

these things connect to your opinions, beliefs, and ideas. If I were to paint a picture of a group of people, my picture would represent an idea of that group of people such as social inequality. Because I believe in equality you would see the hideousness of discrimination and therefore be a protest. If social inequality didn’t exist, then I would have nothing

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee, 103) To Kill a Mockingbird a coming-of-age novel written by Harper Lee is a story about two siblings Scout and Jem who live their everyday life and become obsessed with their never seen neighbor Arthut ‘Boo’ Radley. When eventually everyone is obsessed with Atticus, their highly respected father, defending Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. This great adaptation

false and evidence will be prove that oppressors have used racism, discrimination and the system to stifle equality for African Americans, Jews and minorities. The three universal themes are racism, inequality in the justice system and educational barriers observed throughout the works of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Based on the finding presented by the European Commission (EU) report, substantiates that Germans instituted the Nuremberg Race Laws, thereby prohibiting

father's right,’ she said. “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”’ (Lee 90). In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, siblings Jem and Scout Finch grow up in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. There they witness racial inequality and injustice. By analyzing To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader can learn that racism

To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel, composed by Harper Lee in the early 1960’s, during the Great Depression. The novel presents White superiority to Black people, gender inequality and social classes as three dominant cultural assumptions that governed America, especially the Deep South, in the 20th century. These assumptions have been presented through the use of language, structure, characterisation and themes. The presence of the cultural assumptions and how they have been presented by the

Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird uses themes to help teach social life lessons for the reader to learn about during the early 20th century. The time frame is an essential aspect to teaching social lessons between ourselves and others. With the use of various themes and motifs, Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is aimed to teach moral and social life lessons about innocence, perspectives, perseverance, social inequality, and the coexistence of good and evil. Harper Lee initially went

Harper Lee is a strong minded woman who shows how she feels on social justice through Atticus Finch in her book To Kill A Mockingbird. She shows how you should stand up for what you believe in no matter what. Atticus stands up for Tom Robinson because of how he feels about the case rather than his skin color unlike most of every other white person. Harper Lee reveals some of the truths through Atticus examined in the Novel. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the author shows her beliefs of Social

In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, the portrayl of friendship and racial inequality is expressed throughout this tale. They are based on observations that Harper Lee experienced firsthand. The main themes of this novel is innocence and the racial injustices of the south. The mockingbird represents an innocent being and to kill a mockingbird shows injustice cruelty. Scout and Jem’s childhood is innocent and they have never seen evil in the world until they start seeing the injustices for themselves