Award-winning American author, Harper Lee, published her first but legendary novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, in 1960 and since then the book has become one of the most acclaimed and widely read novels worldwide since its focus were of very sensitive but universal issues humanity have and is still facing which are racial injustice, prejudice, discrimination, segregation and rape. Due to this, the novel has been frequently analyzed using the socio-cultural school of literary criticism. However, I am taking
To Kill a Mockingbird: Social Justice Many Authors have a way of expressing themselves through their literary works. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee blends her views of social justice into the main character Atticus Finch. In Harper lee’s famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird social injustice is the leading problem; the main character Atticus Finch show readers how to overcome racial tension by his consideration and ability to solve problems. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents the idea
one inevitably submerges into a class-specific hierarchy that can dictate specific relationships with people, and in addition influence interactions with other social classes. Observed from relationships in Maycomb County, Alabama, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the social hierarchy is determined not only by amount of wealth, but also by color of skin. The boundaries that divide the county aren’t very transparent either – even through the eyes of children. The very idealistic and brave character
literature in harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird The world is created out of oppositions, divisions and separations between the one and the Other. When people collide or meet, in that sense, in the meeting between different cultural backgrounds they tend to define the others by defining themselves. Jacque Derrida puts it in his essay Archive Fever: Freudian Impressions “every Other is every other Other, is altogether Other “(p.77). Alternatively, as Harper lee sets it clearly in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird
literature in harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird The world is created out of oppositions, divisions and separations between the one and the Other. When people collide or meet, in that sense, in the meeting between different cultural backgrounds they tend to define the others by defining themselves. Jacque Derrida puts it in his essay Archive Fever: Freudian Impressions “every Other is every other Other, is altogether Other “(p.77). Alternatively, as Harper lee sets it clearly in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird