Racism and Prejudice In the present world racism and prejudice are not so common as it was in 1900, when Harper Lee wrote the book “To kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee writes about Scout, who is a seven year old girl that s innocent at the beginning of the book As the book ends, she gets to know about all the things that this bad world has in it. In “To kill a mockingbird” Harper Lee uses Scout to show how people prejudge others on race, way of living and gender expectations. Scout is a little girl who sees how people judge each other on their race. She never understands what the term a “nigger-lover” means, until the people around her force her to. She is frustrated as she wants to find out what it means and so she asks Atticus what “nigger-lover”
Research has indicated that youth are deemed neurologically immature due to their unstable brains during early to mid-adolescence (Scott & Grisso, 2004). Although they have planned different ways to kill the victim, these girls did not think about the possible consequences that their heinous actions would cost them. Both these
The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of Jean Louis Finch, nicknamed Scout. She lives in a small town called Maycomb county. The book is based in the 1930s showing us an inside look of what life looked like back then. The book focuses in the stories of Arthur Radley and Tom Robinson, and how they are a major part in her childhood. The book To Kill a Mockingbird portrays Scout as more intellectually developed than most young kids, but she is way too young to fully comprehend the severity of things, and this shows us that kids unconsciously follow the ‘rules’ that society has placed unless taught otherwise.
This shows her naivety about love; because she has never experienced love, she is only capable of experiencing “puppy love” or superficial attraction. In “Coming of Age in Horton’s Bay: Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’”, Alice Petry Hall as well argues the same. She states “But it is precisely her limited and superficial knowledge of a man which would tend to generate infatuation in an inexperienced young girl…” (Petry Hall 2). She notes too, that Liz’s lack of experience and knowledge of the
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee, the citizens of Maycomb give and receive respect from the amount of conformity that is shown. At the beginning of the book, Jem is given little respect, Atticus is given a lot of respect, and the Radleys are given almost no respect. As the novel progresses, Jem matures and learns responsibility as a young adult. Atticus loses a bit of respect because of his defense of a black person. Meanwhile, the Radleys never conformed much and so never gained much respect.
While Scout has a different point of view than the rest of her community, she doesn 't quite have the same knowledge as Aibileen. Aibileen has to deal with the wage gap every day, and it affects her life and her job. Scout, however, does not have this knowledge or experience. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout has no real experience with money. Due to her age, money is something she has had no real experience with, making her unaware of the black community’s income.
“Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is her favorite child” (Don King). In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, a young girl named Scout is receiving a first hand experience of racism and its brutality. In Chapter 26, during school, Scout’s teacher, Mrs. Gates explains what a democracy is and how it differs from the events taking place in Germany with Hitler and the Jews. Using her biased opinion, Mrs. Gates shows Scout that the world can be a cruel place in more ways than one. During the scene, “Mrs.
The spell turned a 17 years old Sophie into a 90 years old woman. The magical event she experienced is a result of her condition: the unluckiest daughter of the Hatter family. Besides of the effect of the Land of Ingary’s magic, the event also happens because of the intrusion of the witch who curses Sophie. Nikolajeva (2002) believes magical event happens because there is active participation of magical character. The intervention of the witch of the waste to Sophie’s condition then forces Sophie to bravely take a further action: to find a way to break the curse; the thing she never has any thought of before.
Discrimination is the one of the, if not the biggest themes portrayed in the novel To kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. As we already know the biggest form of discrimination in the novel is racism.However, there are many forms of other discrimination such as Jem being put down for being who she loves to be, a classic Tomboy. Another example would be Boo Radley being hated by almost every citizen in Maycomb for no reason at all, none of these mean citizens even know Boo personally. There is however some good to this evil. Atticus and others were different from the norm and stood up for people.
To start off my first example from the book I am going to talk about Scout. Scout is the narrator. She is a daughter and sister. Her mother died when she was very young. She had no mother to teach her how to be a girl.