To Kill A Mockingbird Gender Analysis

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a little town called Maycomb County, Alabama, during the Great Depression. To Kill a Mockingbird is a never ageing book that was written by Harper Lee about what it would be like to live through the eyes of a little girl during the 1930’s. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a young girl who narrates the story tells her side of the things that are going on in the South. And during this her father, Atticus, is to defend a black man and she tells what her and her father must go through. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird much of the focus in this book is on prejudices and discrimination which is shown greatly through points of gender, race, and social classes.

(P.A.W. 2) In To Kill a Mockingbird there is gender discrimination shown greatly

"For one thing, Miss Maudie can’t serve on a jury because she’s a woman" This proves that being a woman around this time gave them no respect towards working. This also shows how women are still thought of as house decorations and decorations to the man instead of being able to do things that they would like no matter what gender. These three quotes are examples of the different gender discrimination, which hold through the entire book.

(P.A.W. 3) When going through the book we can look and see that racism is one of the hottest topics in the book. This topic is so great do to the fact that in the story Atticus is given the job of defending a black man for a crime, and during the span of the case racism in the book is at one its highest point. When Atticus is making his case about what had happened with Tom and Mayella and he starts talking about white codes and morals and how when you break one code you break all the codes. “She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.” This