The Role Of Social Class In To Kill A Mockingbird

“Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you – why can’t you do something for the family?” (Hansberry 1.1.118). The Younger family has grown up without much and when the father dies, he leaves an inheritance that can get the family into a comfortable living position. The only problem is that they all want to use the money for different reasons. Each character wants to make their own dreams come true.

Hardships of the Youngers In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the characters of Mama, Walter ,and Beneatha are faced with hardships associated with their dreams being destroyed by discriminatory housing,racial inequality and lack of support from her family towards her education. In the play all the characters have some kind of dream. Mama wants to get a house for the family, Walter wants to have money to provide for his family and plans to do that with a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to become a doctor. Beneatha is going to school and at the same time she’s trying to discover herself,but her family is not supportive of this.

Additionally, poverty-stricken citizens are at a major disadvantage due to the presence of payoffs and bribes throughout their trial. These citizens on trial have spent most of their lives in unfortunate situations, going days on end without food, water, or shelter; all basic needs for survival. Because of this arduous upbringing, it’s likely that justice will not take a high priority because of the money involved. The gap between the wealthy and the impoverished will continue to grow, increasing the amount of people who will be at a disadvantage in our justice system due to their lack of wealth. With the death penalty still in place, these citizens will certainly be subjected to an unfair trial, like how Edward Elmore’s initial trial took only eight days.

Before she had to make this decision, Ashleigh’s mom and dad were divorced; they were all left with very little money. Of the two personalities, her mother was very strict and responsible, and her father was fun and loving. Ashleigh’s father asks her to steal the money from her mother to pay off a debt that he owes. Ashleigh tends to follow her father’s leadership because he makes her feel unique and loved. Her father gave her the nickname

Even with the new house purchase that the family bought, it was full of hidden cost that family was fooled into buy. This new purchase had a lot of history because Perez 3 Grandmother Majauszkiene had see many families come and go from that home due the living expenses the families had(pg 55). These examples explore how American capitalism destroyed a family from that was trying to get a decent living in the United States. Capitalism was the reason why these people couldn’t get the best in life because capitalism gets and gets but never gives.

Wright writes "Gimme that skillet, Buddy," he asked quietly, not taking his eyes from the rat (10), and “black people, even though they cannot get good jobs, pay twice as much rent as whites” (248). Bigger was ashamed of the way his family lived as he saw how whites lived, and felt there was nothing he could do to change it. Yet he knew that he had to be the provider for his family. Wright further expressed how Bigger felt by the phrase “We live here and they live there.

My source claims that poverty is a big problem in certain countries, yet most people aren't doing anything about it, they're too focused on themselves. Banksy claims that society is selfish and ungrateful. Mondays have become a big thing to be mad about anywhere, society seems to hate waking up early and doing work, yet in other countries people are dying due to lack of clean food. An argument that is linked with Idols of the tribe is society feeling like nothing is enough. Society feels that having to do tasks is just plain boring and makes life bad.

Social capital is the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function efficiently. I think that families that are poor can 't really do much about the places they live in, more so wealthier families can live in mansions but also still be in debt. Its difficult to actually know which family is better off. Some families that are poor get a lot of free things life lunches at school and wealthier kids treat poor kids differently when it comes to certain things and that is not right at all. And schools and other facilities should look more into discussing things so that it won’t be that was anymore.

Social classes are quite the weird topic to discuss in society. It’s basically saying who is “superior” to who when it comes to talking about wealth, position, or pretty much anything in life. Homeless people are looked down upon for being poor, not dressing properly, and being unkempt, these kind of people are in the lower class. The class above that is the working class, which consists of people with a minimized amounts of education and jobs that don’t provide the good paychecks or the jobs are very dangerous, which means that the bad outweighs the good in this case. Then there’s the middle class, which consists of jobs that pay decent to good money, but not enough money to make them the cream of the crop since the upper class compromises of the rich, which only ranges from 1 to 3% of the U.S population.

For example, the improvement of working conditions in America. At the time, working conditions were very poor, and the workers were paid very little. Since there were not any regulations employers were able to over work there employees. Even children were being over worked, but they needed to, otherwise their families could not eat. Both parties focused on the reformation and modernization of

The Cunninghams were hit hardest by the depression, because of this, they had little to no money. When Walter Jr. was in school and his teacher offered to loan him money, Scout had to explain to her teacher what was happening. Scout was trying to explain their state in class one day during lunch to Ms. Caroline, “He didn’t forget his lunch, he didn’t have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day. He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.”(Lee)

Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice in the 1950s was a problem and it still is in 2017. When it comes to the topic of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys it is important that before judging someone, get to know them better. One example of prejudice Harper Lee uses in To Kill a Mockingbird is Tom Robinson. In the small town of Maycomb almost everyone assumes Tom is guilty of raping Mayella Ewell even though there is no evidence or reasoning.

The writer, Harper Lee, in chapter 9 of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird conveys social racism. For example, when Atticus tells Scout how lawyers have black clients but not all lawyers try to do a good job at defending the black person. The writer, Harper Lee, in chapter 10 of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates resistance. For example, when all of Scouts classmates are being rude to her because her dad is on the Tom Robinson rape case Scout ignores them because she had promised her dad that shw wouldn’t get into anymore fights with other kids.

Both past and present societies are overshadowed by years of injustice and prejudice. People are often judged, criticized, or have their futures affected by the biased social norms that continue to linger in society today. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird displays and brings up a series of arguments that, although the literature was written more than fifty years ago, are still applicable to the present day, with some of those arguments being about the effects of an individual’s socioeconomic status in an arraigning community. Lee’s arguments on socioeconomic class suffice to say that, on most occasions, citizens who grow up and are naturally born with educational advantages are already at the top of the social hierarchy, while others believe that that kind of status becomes irrelevant when one’s morality is taken into account.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-- 'Sir?' --until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (Lee, 39). To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, follows the story of Scout Finch, Jem Finch, and everyone in the town of Maycomb. They experience conflict, including a pivotal trial that changes their lives. To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes, often making the book easy to categorize into many genres.