To Kill A Mockingbird Gender Equality Analysis

A lazy summer breeze sweeps across the laboring backs of men and women while the ever burning sun warms the sleepy town folk whose men stole down the cracked sidewalks. As the women sit perched upon windowsills and porches fan themselves ever so slowly, and as children mud caked faces smile and yell out the dreams of an innocent minded. Embedded into this surreal sense rests an animosity. Maycomb County was nothing out of the ordinary and its citizens were the same way. The year is some time in the late 1930s and it was as if the world was simply seen in black and white, a simple concept for a simple town. Prejudice was a filter of which Maycomb saw through like the dust a horse’s hooves kicked up as they meandered down the riverbanks. Of course at this time ones worth was decided for them by the color of their skin and the age of their family. The book To

Stephanie was hoping to find some gossip with the idea that Jean Louise a girl would break gender confinements. The ladies at the book club before hearing scout’s answer found this to be a rather amusing topic, proving that even the discriminated are sometimes acceptant of their own inequality. Scout had always been appalled at the idea of being “a girl” and shows great resentment towards the idea as Jem uses the stereotype as motivation. By calling scout a girl the implied message is one of weakness so whenever Scout is hesitant towards one of Jem’s plans the automatic response is “getting more like a girl,” Jem has used this argument many times such as when he wanted to look through the Radley window to see Boo. This shows how the basis of sexism can even affect the children who look at gender as a deciding factor of courage. Sadly prejudice towards one can start at something as simple as weather or not they fit their ever limiting gender