Theme Of Cruelty In To Kill A Mockingbird

Can people be inhumane to others? To be inhumane means to not be kind or gentle to people or animals. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a social drama that shows inhumanity in a great way. A major theme in this novel is man’s inhumanity to man. The Tom Robinson plot, Boo Radley plot, and the name of the novel play a part in portraying inhumanity to others.

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the segregated South of the 1930’s. The book is told in the eyes of an eight year old girl, Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, is an attorney who is struggling to prove the innocence of a black man incorrectly accused of rape. The historical context of the book lets one see the social status of different groups during the civil rights era. The story explores who fits into certain societies, who is respected in the community, written and unwritten rules concerning family, gender, age, and race, expectations of certain people, and what conflicts arise out of tension.

The cruelty in this book is seen through the situations of Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Maycomb's reaction to Atticus taking the Tom Robinson case It is very unsettling.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee as the novel progresses Scout’s innocence is gradually evaporating. Scout is losing her innocence of a child from being exposed to the “real world” and experiencing the prejudice ness of others. At the beginning of the novel Scout is a young girl who has never faced the “evil” of the world. Maycomb county Alabama during the Great depression is extremely racially prejudiced. Scout encounters the evil of society when Atticus takes on the case of Tom Robinson. One day at school ¨He (Cecil Jacobs) had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers”(99) Scout’s became very angry by this and her “fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly”(99) Scout being harassed by

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches her readers that sometimes it can difficult to believe or understand the evil in the world.

Sylvester Stallone once said, “The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis… You don’t need a gimmick, it’s just man against man and their intolerance of each other.” This intolerance is shown throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. It leads to inhumanity, loss of childhood innocence and loneliness, all of which are key themes that the characters in the novel experience. Inhumanity is defined by Mr Dolphus Raymond as, “The simple hell people give other people” (P 222). In the novel, inhumanity is the root of many people’s loneliness and the origin of many children’s loss of innocence.

Everyone has a hatred towards something or someone and that is perfectly normal. When you have a hatred towards something that someone can't change about themselves, you should probably keep it to yourself. When you express your emotion of hatred to a person about something that they have to live with or something they enjoy, it can really get to that person. You can make that person feel unwanted. You can make them feel like they can't go anywhere or do anything without being judged. A common theme throughout all the units we have studied so far is hatred. The theme of hatred is important because it was the root of all the problems caused in all four of the units we studied.

It is The Great Depression, and an innocent black man has been accused of raping a white woman, nothing new. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during The Great Depression. The novel covers the years where Boo Radley took over the Finch kids’ childhoods, and Atticus Finch, a respected lawyer, defends a black man. Scout and Jem, spend their years entangled in stories surrounding a man named Arthur “Boo” Radley by using their free time doing anything to see him in person. Amid their activities, their father, Atticus Finch, has to defend an innocent black man in a rape case against

Race has always been a part of history, from slavery to MLK, to Barack Obama. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee defines race in the south during the 1930’s. Jean “Scout” Finch, is the narrator of the story. Her brother Jeremy “Jem” and her dad, Atticus, are both main characters. Calpurnia is their house cook and helper, she is also black. Tom Robinson is a black man who is wrongfully convicted of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell. This novel goes through Scout's life from when she was 6, till she is 9. She lives in the town of Maycomb Alabama, and lives an innocent life until about halfway through the story, where she begins to ask questions. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout shows the readers that racial inequality creates an unjust society through the African American community, through the people surrounding colored folks, and through Tom Robinson’s Case.

In the modern world, we are surrounded by judgement and discrimination. Nearly everyone is faced with hardships and insults based on their beliefs, habits, interests, and appearance. In a time of such hatred, there is a handful of pieces of literature that have spoken truth through the ages. One such book is To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the Great Depression in the fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. The early 30s were also a time of great discrimination and hostility; especially directed towards African Americans. In this fictional narrative, Atticus Finch takes the role of father to the narrator and protagonist, Scout Finch, and he serves as a lawyer in the county. Atticus represents hope and goodness in a time of great judgement because he is understanding, nonjudgmental, and forgiving.

To kill a mockingbird, V for Vendetta, Slated and Thirteen all convey the theme loss of innocence. To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem lose their innocence through injustice. V for Vendetta and Slated, both Evey and Kyla loses their innocence through government manipulation. Lastly Thirteen, Tracy loses her innocence through school and the influence of her friends. These shows how there are a variety of ways to lose your innocence. These four text prove how being innocent makes you a target. Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird, she was a target at school because she was unaware of everything that was happening. Evey from V for Vendetta was a target from the government to manipulate and get her to believe that the government’s actions are only

A central theme present in The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, To Kill A Mockingbird and A Time To Kill is prejudice, more specifically prejudice is never born, only taught and it takes a strong individual to overcome these teachings. This idea is shown through the visual representation of our project and its many different symbols.

In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee exemplifies the theme of racism and how it impaired and blemished the citizens of Maycomb County. One figure that Lee uses to represent racism is the “mad dog,” Tim Johnson. When Tim went out of control and became absurd and perilous to Maycomb County, every character in the novel knew that something had to be done about it. Like Tim, racism can and will eventually get out of control. When Atticus shot and killed Tim, this portrays as if Atticus is killing racism as a whole.

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee presents a large social atmosphere that includes many different cultures and extremes. The story takes place in the southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. This novel illustrates how the southerners perceived different ideas about each other and social norms. It is told through the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch, as she is growing up and becoming influenced by societal attitudes. Throughout the course of this book Scout learns many lessons including: how a society functions, why there is conflict between different cultures, and what makes cultures different from each other. Harper Lee utilizes functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism to convey how

“The air is the only place free from prejudice,” said Bessie Coleman, the first female pilot of African American descent. Meaning, that everyone has experienced prejudice in their lives, either as victims themselves, or guilty of using prejudice towards others due to differences between them. There are different types of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird illustrated by the situations of Boo Radley, Tom Robinson & Dolphus Raymond.