Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

The judgmental attitude of Maycomb goes beyond racism. The old ways of Maycomb refuse change and when Scout goes against social norms, she is bombarded with judgmental

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there” ~ Scott Peck. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird abounds with the injustice produced by social, gender, and racial prejudice. The setting of the book takes place in the 1930s, where racism is a big deal in society. In the novel Harper Lee uses a mockingbird as an analogy to the characters. The Mockingbird is a symbol for Three Characters in the book, Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. The people of Maycomb only know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. These Characters are then characterized by other people 's viewpoints. In the novel there are many themes that are adjacent to our lives, the one that is found in To Kill A Mockingbird is Human Conflict comes from the inability for one to understand another. “ You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (39)

The people of Maycomb explain Tom’s death by reasoning that it was “typical of a nigger’s mentality to have no plan, no thought for the future, just run blind first chance he saw” (322). The society does not have any respect for the African Americans, and they feel they are justified in stereotyping and making assumptions about

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned and/or challenged over thirty times since its publication in 1960. Effectively preventing many students from enjoying the novel and benefitting from its message. To ignore racism is no different than denying it ever existed. To Kill a Mockingbird is appropriate for mature adolescence/students and should not be banned from schools. Despite its sexual related content, or profanity, a valuable lesson remains that should be taught to students.

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird shows us how one small, peaceful, southern town during the Great Depression can be engulfed in hatred, racism, and prejudice unseen by the outside world. In this seemingly quiet town in the middle of Alabama, people are forced to live by racist ideals that their families have carried on for generations. Although the citizens of Maycomb believe they are right and just, their prejudices overtake their human conscious when the time comes for them ‘to do the right thing.’ They truly believe that they are a kind community of Christians who live by the words of the Bible. While Maycomb includes all folks who think the same way as they do, they ban those who think differently or are from an ‘inferior’ race. Therefore, Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond, and Mayella Ewell stand outside the structure of respectable Maycomb society, in some cases as the result of their own doing and in some, as the result of being forced out by others.

The characters in, To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, often use prejudice against people of controversial issues. Many of the townspeople of Maycomb use prejudice on the families who are on the less wealthy end of the spectrum. Issues are still displayed because of the racial prejudice used against African Americans and those of other races. Lastly, gender is a clear issue in Maycomb because of women’s and girl’s rights and lack of respect towards them because they are female. All of the types of prejudice show that Maycomb has many problems all throughout the town between other families and townspeople.

Life is like a thrill ride; one never knows what will be in store for them. Many characters in the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee feel the same way about life, having experienced many surprising and unexpected turns of events. This story is about a sleepy southern town filled with prejudice, and a lawyer’s quest, along with his children Scout and Jem, to take steps in ridding the town of its prejudiced attitude. Despite being a white man, a lawyer named Atticus, defends an innocent black man accused of raping a white woman. However, everything does not go as was hoped, and the mindset of the society overpowered Atticus’s fair-minded argument. From this emerges a theme regarding the bigotry and bias overwhelming Maycomb: A

In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” racism is the main problem. Whether it be white folks fighting white folks over their “nigger loving” ways or, in Tom Robinson’s case, black folks being wrongly accused of crimes they didn’t commit. The opinions of the citizens in Maycomb varied tremendously, but the thoughts of the children (Jem and Scout), their father Atticus, and the townspeople varied the most.

The racism in Maycomb are not stemmed from misfits of society, but rather from the ordinary people of Maycomb. This is dangerous as it regularizes racism,

The central idea that develops throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is discrimination. Throughout the book many people had prejudice, hatred, and ignorance towards others who lived in Maycomb. To Kill a Mockingbird showed what living with discrimination was like back then and it also tells the reader that you shouldn’t always judge a book by its cover.

In order to be your best possible self, you have to put yourself in someone else 's shoes. Atticus emphasizes that you have to untie your own shoes before putting yourself in someone else 's throughout his parenting in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus strongly encourages Scout to explore the mentality of compassion, sympathy, and tolerance, by crawling into other 's shoes and trying to grasp what they go through in their everyday lives. When Scout puts herself in else 's shoes, she comes to the conclusion that the world is full of people who are willing to live their lives in hiding, just to be happy, and to hide from people’s harsh judgement.

There are many things cause by humans that can separate a world and hurt very many people at one time. Anger or greed are some of the things we are all fighting. However, neither of those come close to racism. The world's worst prejudice is racism, To Kill a Mockingbird presented us with racism within their community and everyone was being hurt by it. To Kill a Mockingbird was written during the depression when racism was unfortunately accepted. This book shows how a family in a small southern town wanted it to stop. In every situation life throws at us someone always disagrees. In Maycomb, there was a whole crowd. As read in this Novel by Harper Lee, she shows that a community with differences always goes down as a whole.

J.F. Clarke once said "The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience." This quote means that standing up for what is right is the most profound form of bravery. Obeying one’s conscience is most difficult and requires the most bravery when others are against you, disagree, and mock or even threaten violence because of the exercise of one’s conscience. This quote is proven true in the story To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. It is revealed to be true through the actions of Mrs. Dubose, Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. Harper Lee takes the small rural town of Maycomb, in Southern Alabama, and transforms it during the course of the novel from a hardcore racist town into a community beginning to demonstrate its capacity for equality, fairness, and justice.

In Maycomb courage is shown by the Mockingbirds, because these people are a figure of courage to their fellow neighbors and friends. Racism is being fought off by all sorts of people, kids, adults as well as white and black people against the unright and unjust thought of skin color being how people define your character, through it all people brave through threats, and the chance of being hated. Against all odds a town full of racism is taking “baby steps toward the right direction, and baby steps is how you walk as baby steps is going to get things fixed in

Our minds are the single most powerful tool in the body. Thought enables us to function, to decide, and to reason. Equally so, an idea is a powerful thing. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee presents us with a story of a town who let its preconceived ideas get in the way of logic, sense, and proof. The prevailing idea that causes so much turmoil in Maycomb is that people who are different are wrong, and should be stopped. This notion permeates the actions of the town, causing them to disregard all rational thought, hold illogical personal opinions as fact, and act unfairly towards others. The theme of injustice appears numerous times in the book through the assumptions made against Boo, Scout’s experience at school, and the unfair conviction of Tom Robinson.