To Kill a Mockingbird takes places in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Most of the white population were discriminating towards blacks. People were very prejudice back then. There are many different types of Prejudice. The following types are examples of prejudice: Racial, Social, and Religious. People are not as cruel as they use to be, but there are still some people who are. People made racism out to be like a way of life. They treated colored people like dogs. They did not understand that they have feelings also; With that being said, In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops a novel to show how prejudice our everyday life use to be.
Racism was a humongous thing back in the 1930’s when this novel took place. Many examples of Racial prejudice are used because that is what the entire novel revolves around. When people hear the word ‘Racism’ they think white towards colored people, well colored people are sometimes racist towards white people. Some
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examples of racial prejudice is when Tom Robinson got accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a white woman. She was strangled and punched in the face by someone who was left handed. Atticus asked Bob Ewell to write and he was left handed, but Tom was crippled and could not use his left arm so there was no way he could’ve done that, but he lost the case just because he was black and Mayella and Bob were white. That was an examples of how Whites were racist against blacks. An example of how blacks were racist against whites is when Cal took Jem and Scout to her church and Lula said that she did not want white people in her church. The last example of Racial Prejudice is when they were going to send Boo Radley to Tuscaloosa, but they did not want him to be around blacks so they just locked him up in the basement of the police station. An example from the novel is when Atticus said “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed” to Scout. That quote just means that Tom Robinson was considered dead as soon as she screamed simply because he was black and she was white. During that time, it did not matter if everyone knew you were not guilty or guilty if you went up against a white person, they are going to win; however, They accused him without him even getting to explain his innocence and why he did not do it. Everyone in there right mind knew that Bob Ewell abused Mayella. Racial prejudice was a very big struggle back in the 1930’s. Yes, we still have racial people but it is not near as bad as it use to be. Social prejudice was another big problem in this novel. Back in the 1930’s, the south was very judgemental about where you are on the social level. Most of the higher class people who were rich did not really talk to the poor folks like the Cunningham’s. Some examples of social prejudice are the way aunt Alexandra did not want Scout to play with little Walter Cunningham because he was “trash”, When Scout beat Walter Cunningham to dinner, and When Aunt Alexandra did not want Atticus to defend Tom Robinson in the case. Aunt Alexandra did not want Scout and Jem to play with Walter Cunningham because he was “trash” and below them just because they do not have money. Another example is when Scout was in the first grade and little Walter Cunningham did not bring food or any money because they were poor. The Cunningham's never borrowed something they couldn't give back so he did not take the money the teacher offered him. She asked why he did not take it and then Scout jumped in and explained how they do not take anything they can not give back; Consequently, the teacher got onto Scout and so she beat little Walter Cunningham up for getting her in trouble. Lastly, the third example is right after Jem pulled Scout off of Walter and then Jem invited Walter to go eat dinner with them. When they got their food, Walter Cunningham poured Syrup all over his food and so Scout made fun of him. Cal pulled Scout into the kitchen and said "That boys' yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the tablecloth you let him, you hear?". Which is just explaining that how you should never judge anyone. Especially the people you invited to your home. The last type of prejudice is Religious prejudice.
Religious prejudice is when people judge you about what God you believe in or if you don't believe in God. Like when Cal took Scout and Jem to her colored people's church and Lula didn't want them to come in and Cal said that it's the same God. That is just saying that it doesn't matter where you are, as long as you are worshiping God... It does not matter where you are. Another example is people called Nathan Radley a foot washing Baptist the last example is when Mr. Radley said Mrs.Maudie and her stupid flowers were going to hell; however, when the Radley’s said something like that, most people just ignore it. Mrs.Maudie states: "Foot-washers believe anything that's pleasure is a sin. Did you know some of 'em came out of the woods one Saturday and passed by this place and told me and my flowers we were going to hell." The author uses this quote to demonstrate social inequality. With that being said, it shows how the adults are influencing the kids to be
prejudice. Prejudice was an everyday way of life back in the 1930. White people always thought they were better when black people for some odd reason. White people acted like they worshiped God, but if they read and knew the bible they would know not to judge. The whites people acted like the colored people did not have feelings. They acted like they did not have a meaning for life. In conclusion, the colored people went through many types of prejudice through their days, but today is not as bad. Yes, we still have a bunch of problems with many types of prejudice but it is not as bad as it use to be.
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a rural southern town in the 1930s, when racism was commonly accepted. Blacks were
Why are different races and social classes treated so differently? Why was education so horrible at some points in time? Two of the characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are Jem and Scout. When Jem and Scout are growing up, they find out that many things are not as they seem. Certain people are not treated as well as others just because of the color of their skin, how they live, educational status, or even on just urban legend. At courthouses back then, blacks had to sit in a balcony. Many people in this time were so uneducated that they couldn’t read out of hymn books at church, if they had any. Harper Lee wrote a story to express the different kinds of prejudice and educational problems in the 1930’s in Maycomb County, Alabama.
Scout's perception of prejudice is evolved through countless experiences in Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird. Written in the nineteen thirties, To Kill a Mockingbird promotes the understanding of self-discovery through Scout, an intelligent and outspoken child living with respectable family in Maycomb County, Alabama. Throughout various encounters in the novel, Harper Lee causes Scout's perspective to change and develop from innocence to awareness and eventually towards understanding.
Three students kicked out of a high school for threatening to bring a gun to school. Why would they? Because people were prejudice against them because other students thought they were “losers”. Moral: You shouldn’t not like a person because they aren’t like you. Prejudice was far much worse in the time period of To Kill A Mockingbird. But, Prejudice is the reason for much social injustice. Three characters named Nathan Radley, Atticus Finch, and Aunt Alexandria show us this in the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.
The mockingbird is a reoccurring symbol that denotes the idea of the exploitation of blameless beings by those of higher influence. The prominent theme in To Kill A Mockingbird is that the innocent are often taken advantage of by those with more power. Prejudice has a lot of control over what occurs throughout the novel. Scout depicts several situations when discrimination plays a major role in the outcome of certain events. Eventually, Scout learns "she must put herself in others' places before judging them" (Telgen 287).
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The book, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the Early 1930’s. The 1930’s was a decade of racism,pain and struggle. However, this decade soon became the new beginning. To escape the horrendous reality of being unemployed and unable to provide for their families, many turned to entertainment to escape the hardships and realities that they were going through. Many families went to church regularly to ask for forgiveness and to hope that things would change for the better. Many churches seen about a 5 percent increase in the amount of members attending church when the Great Depression had started. Also, the 1930s was a time where there was a lot of tension between the races. Discrimination against blacks was not yet illegal, and therefore
Prejudice is arguably the most prominent theme of the novel. It is directed towards groups and individuals in the Maycomb community. Prejudice is linked with ideas of fear superstition and injustice.
To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama when segregation was popular in the southern states. This is a time period where women were supposed to be proper and the men were supposed to be complete gentlemen; while the black folk were supposed to stay separated from the rest of society. When the Blacks were accused of anything by Whites they would immediately would be pressed with charges. With To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme of the importance of moral education, the motif of small town life (everybody knowing each others business), and how a different time period or geographical location would affect the events within the novel; these few things have an important significance throughout Harper Lee's book.
There are many examples of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. “Two women lied about how all nine of the Scottsboro Boys raped them so they do not get in trouble for being prostitutes” (Anderson). Atticus said in his closing argument Mayella threw herself at a black man, and she did not want to face the consequences of her actions, so she changed the story to make the black man take the blame for what she did (Lee 272). Racism showed up many times in To Kill a Mockingbird especially in the Scottsboro
Racism has been evident all around America, even before this country was officially created over two hundred years ago. Prejudice and racism are not uncommon words in American history, because many disputes, such as war and protests, have emerged from the topic of race. This has been a common practice in the past, and is still a common practice today. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the effects of racism are shown in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. The effects of racism were very cruel during this time, and Harper Lee reflected this through characters, such as Atticus, Jem, Scout, Mrs. Dubose, Aunt Alexandra, and Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Discrimination played a big role in the 1930s and throughout the development of the novel, and still is not completely diminished in the 21st century. Sexism, classicism, and racism all typified the many relationships in To Kill A Mockingbird, from Aunt Alexandra wanting Scout to become a lady, to Tom Robinson's unfair court trial. Prejudices are formed because of the level of ignorance people have when they believe everything they hear from their peers without bothering to be fertilized with education, leading to a division within communities, physically and mentally.
Prejudice in Race and Sexism in To Kill a Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a drastic division within the local community was immediately evident to the reader. Whites and blacks knew their place with whites dominating blacks. Harper Lee stressed feelings of superiority amongst males and females throughout the novel ( Haynes). Thus, racism and sexism were a recurring theme throughout the novel. Additionally, they both played major roles in the people’s lives in the novel.
In Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird, this book takes place on a small town called Maycomb. Two young childrens, Scout and Jem, are the childs to a Lawyer, Atticus, that is defending a black man. In this book, whites and blacks didn’t really got along with each other. This is called Prejudice and prejudice means to judge before getting to know and talk to the person/group, they judge by either how they look or their skin color. The story is teaching the readers a lesson, how throughout the book, how prejudice affected the relationship between blacks and whites. While some might argue that the lesson in the story could be “Kids fear what they do not understand, “ in the text it says how Cecil Jacobs told everyone in his school how Scout
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, takes place in a small southern town of Alabama called Maycomb, in the 1930s. During this period in Maycomb, like in the rest of nation, many families suffer from the economic hardships of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Families such as the Cunninghams and Ewells are examples of this, which only had enough to survive. In addition to the economic events that marked the 1930s, there was still great resentment in the south from the Civil War and in many southern states there was inequality for African-Americans. During this period, laws such as Jim Crows Laws illustrated the racial time period the US lived across. Jim Crow Laws allowed discriminating against African-Americans since they were still consider