To Kill A Mockingbird: Social Injustice

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, injustice is a main theme that is reflected towards many characters. To Kill a Mockingbird, is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in the nineteen-sixties. Many characters in the story are treated unfairly in society due to racial or prejudicial attitudes. Overall these characters are innocent victims of injustice. Atticus, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson are considered to be mockingbirds in the novel. A mockingbird was defined as a bird that did nothing wrong, but sang beautiful music for us to hear. These characters did nothing wrong and were treated unfairly in their town. In this different society, there are many factors that have had an influence on people’s perceptions towards others.

Social injustice has flooded the world and will continue to flood the world until someone stops all this evil. In Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression, there is poverty and racism ruling over the South. Scout Finch has yet to realize all the evil surrounding her and her family. The evil that takes over Maycomb is the racism that lives in the hearts of its citizens. In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, readers see a view of social injustices caused by racism through the Maycomb citizens who see the world through a veil of hypocrisy, which is shown by their actions in the way they talk down to Tom, and the truths of Maycomb’s society.

Social injustice is caused by inequalities in the world. What's an inequality you ask? Inequality is when a person or group of people are treated differently, in a bad way, because of a quality they possess whether it be race, religion, where they're from, etc. For example, segregation is an inequality that was caused by people believing people of white race are purer than those of other races. These inequalities grow and become a big problem and are called social injustices.

“1]. How does social inequality impact people of different nationalities [ethnicities & races], classes, and genders in society.”

Synchronously, the developing economies such as some Asian and South American regions which exported their experienced workers to the overseas market can also reduce the unemployment pressure that governments must face in long-term period. On the other hand, international remittances are beneficial for both migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. Statistics discovered that the international remittances transmitted to the homeland of 35 to 40 million migrant workers are currently estimated to be about US $66 billion per year, and represent the second largest international monetary trade flow, exceeded only by petrol (Sasikumar 2001). For the countries which exported labour to rich countries, they would gain enormous exchange funds from international remittances and regard the money as foreign investment to facilitate their economic development. By contrary, for these migrant-receiving countries, the outflow of vast domestic currency would take away some financial threats such as malignant inflation to a great extend. Nay, the popularization of one country's currency could also accelerate its economic fluidity and strengthen its economic influence to the other countries.

In current times we often observe that many members of our society receive less than other members regardless of whether they are no less deserving. In contrast, there are some who have ownership over assets and earn income that they may not be deserving of. The distributive balance is upset and wealth distribution today can thus be seen as a social injustice. This injustice that is becoming more noticeable as people start to become aware of the facts, as we can see through the start of the occupy wall street movements that, first started on wall street in America, have spread to other countries (one of which being Australia). As a consequence of how wealth is habitually distributed and the way in

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

Nepal is a relatively small (population around 26.5 million) land-locked country, bordered by the two biggest countries in the world, India and China. Its renowned physical beauty makes it very fragmented and many parts are inaccessible by modern transport and communication facilities. There are few cities and 86% of the population lives in rural areas. The country is divided into 5 development regions, 14 zones and 75 districts. Despite its richness in biodiversity, natural resources and cultural multiplicity, Nepal has still remained a developing country where more than 24 percent of the people live under the poverty line. The impact of the poverty is manifest in all other sectors like health and hygiene, education, disaster and conflict preparedness, access to and distribution of resources, gender equity, as well as respect for humanitarian values. The transitional period of developmental change in the legal, political, financial and diplomatic scenario indicate that the country needs more efforts in the fields of social reformation, rehabilitation and development.

These new tenants/faces of injustice nowadays are stated as: Elitism, Exclusion, Prejudice, Greed and Despair. Old evils/faces that were once said to cause social injustice were due to a lack of: Education (ignorance), Money (want) Work (idleness) Comfort (squalor) and Health (disease).

Social injustice can range from anything such as; immigrants being depicted in the U.S, to a women getting yelled out by a man because of her social position. Social injustice can be seen all over our society. However, with the exception of some situations being greater then others, it can be agreed that social conflict is everlasting and ever-changing in our society.

Some examples are Singapore, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea, and Qatar, and others tend to be rapidly developing nations with a shortage of unskilled labor. They obtain workers by forming contracts with third-party recruitment agencies, but it is often the negligence of receiving countries that causes the exploitation of migrant workers. The specific labor contracts are rarely negotiated by the employers themselves, and as a result migrant workers lack crucial social protections. It is important to note, however, that the abuse of migrant workers can be either intentional or unintentional. Receiving nations may have intentions to provide safe working conditions and equal wages, but this rarely occurs in real life. Migrant workers are often enter into labor contracts because they are promised more than what they will actually receive by recruitment agencies. When formulated solutions, nations in this bloc should examine their immigration policies and determine whether they contribute to the problem or not. Delegates should also be aware of the political, economic, and social reasons behind their countries’ use of migrant workers, as well as the specific causes of abuses in their specific cases. Then, they must work towards measures to ensure legal working conditions, equal pay, the elimination of discrimination, and social protections according to country

Poverty is not a crime gifted in a package. There are some reasons that cannot be discarded which play a role of a catalyst in emerging poverty. As far as Nepal is concerned, the extreme geographical conditions, low level of education, lack of good governance in the community are the key factors that led to the current scenario. Poor people have no access to basic infrastructure and have no source of income generation. Due to these reasons people in rural areas mostly face hand to mouth problem. In search of earning livelihood people are

When the resources in a society are distributed unevenly it leads to social inequality. Often inequality is understood as being socio-economic and it is now closely associated with social inequality. “Social inequalities are differences in income, resources, power and status within and between societies. Such inequalities are maintained by those in powerful positions via institutions and social processes.” (Warwick-Booth, 2013 p.2)

In case of Nepal, labor migration and remittance are the major economic basis. Labor migration in Nepal has dramatically increased with the opening up of new markets for Nepali labor in the countries like Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. Nepal Living Standard Survey 2003/04 suggests that now pre-eminent role of the Gulf Countries is as a destination for Nepali labor and source of remittances. Human resources are the wealth of nation and their importance has tremendously increased in recent years for unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled people have shown tremendous inclination towards foreign employment

The Indian Diaspora today constitutes an important, to some extent unique, force in world culture. It is estimated to be the second largest in the world. Colonialism generated economic compulsions in the 19th century which paved the way for the people of India to migrate to overseas. This is a unique diverse pattern compared to any other Diaspora. Indians spread initially to the countries of Africa, Southeast Asia, Fiji and the Caribbean and later to the Middle East, the U.S, Malaysia, and South Africa. After the British abolished slavery, enormous demand for cheap labour arose in 1833-1834. It was succeeded in the later 20th century, by a steady outflow of some of the best professionals of India to the already developed countries such as the US, Canada and Australia. Some of India’s skilled and semi-skilled labour moved to West Asia and the Gulf in the 1970s in the wake of oil boom.