What Is Society's Influence In To Kill A Mockingbird

The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, more formally known as the Columbian Exposition, was a fair constructed to celebrate Columbus’ arrival in the New World. Chicago was known as the White City, but did not appear as pure and spotless as its name suggested. For instance, there were many ways one could get killed. “Fire took a dozen lives a day...There was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, influenza. And there was murder.” (Larson 12). These unstoppable causes of death was one of the reasons Chicago’s reputation was tarnished. Furthermore, the Panic of 1893 struck and greatly affected the city of Chicago. The Panic’s effects included “financial crises”, “bankruptcy”, and “high rates of unemployment and homelessness”. (Panic of 1893). Because of the city’s economic depression, the fair would decide whether Chicago’s circumstances would improve or deteriorate. Eventually, the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair displayed what America would soon become in an industrial, military, and economic perspective.

Mayella Ewell is a lower class woman that “lives behind the city dump”(Lee, Chapter 17). She has accused Tom Robinson of raping her. Her dad, Bob Ewell is very abusive to his daughter, but no one knows about it yet. All this takes place in the 1930’s in Maycomb Alabama. It states in the text that “Mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean” (Lee, Chapter 18).

To Kill a Mockingbird was a very influential book in the eyes of a growing young woman in America in the 1930’s from the eyes of Jean Louise as a child and Jean reminiscing or reflecting as an adult about the past. Mayella Ewell was a white woman who was looked down upon by her own race and the African Americans were too scared to talk to her. Mayella was looked at to be powerless over her own life and others. If she is, then why does she win the case against Tom Robinson? In the town of Maycomb race, class, and gender played larger roles than some may think let's determine how.

Mayella is a white women, and white women are protected very well in the South during the 1930’s. Some of the women's protection comes from the Jim Crow laws. It is shown that Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, is very protective of her when he says to Tom Robinson, ‘You goddamn whore, I’ll kill ya. ’’’(“DBQ Is Mayella Powerful” 15), when he thinks he has done something to his daughter. This shows that Mayella is very well protected since she is a young girl, yet she isn’t just protected by her father, but she is also protected by the Jim Crow laws as well.

Mayella Ewell is often mentally, physically, and sexually abused by her father Bob Ewell. Even though Mayella takes care of her siblings each day, she is lonely most of the time, considering nobody wants to be around her. Her father abuses her and beats her often, and Mayella wants the abuse to come to an end. Mayella comes up with and fulfills a plan to end the abuse coming from her father. Her plan involved a Negro man named Tom Robinson. Mayella accuses Tom of beating and raping her, and brings Tom to court, and goes up against him in a trial. Her plan was successful and came out in her favor because she was manipulative, and she knew what it took to win the trial. Mayella Ewell, a poor, white woman, who lives on a dump, is seen as

Mayella Ewell is a tragic character in To Kill a Mockingbird. She is faced with many struggles involving her family and the people around her. Although Mayella is a poor white woman with an abusive father, no mother, and six siblings to take care of she does have power. Mayella Ewell is powerful as a character and continues to gain power in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird when it comes to race, class and gender. Despite Mayella being very poor and in a lower class of the society in Maycomb Alabama she uses her status as a white female to manipulate others into deciding in her favor when dealing with her court case against Tom Robinson regarding him being wrongfully accused of

Her father was abusive, and she had no one to talk to. Every day, she would do all the work around the house, and take care of the children, with no help. Tom was most likely the only person to ever show her kindness and politeness, the only one to ever stop to help her and talk to her. The black people wouldn’t have anything to do with the Ewells because they were white, and the white people wouldn’t have anything to do with them because they lived like pigs, among the blacks. The prejudices other people held towards them was what caused them to act the way they did in the first place. We see that although what Mayella was doing was horrible, she had reasons to do it. She is a victim of social pressures, of prejudice, and the effects these things have on her family.

In Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird” Jem , Scout , and Dill live in Maycomb , Alabama around the time of the 1930’s they all were struggling through racism and poor family’s trying to get by. Harper Lee’s first and only novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” was published during the civil right movements. In this book Jem, Scout, and Dill tend to have courage and loyalty through life and in their relationship toward one another . Jem and Scout are brother and sister, Dill is a friend of the family but they accept him as a brother. Although, Jem and Dill have the most exceptional relationship out of them all. “ To Kill A Mockingbird” the impact racism had on society shows through the setting , characters , and town of Maycomb , Alabama .

Whatever your rationale is, humans are social for one reason or another, and somewhere on the way to becoming a society that shares ideas and values we lose our individualism. When it comes to Mayella and Victoria they’re no exception, whether it was because of religion, fame, or just to fit in society taught them it’s okay to milk your sob story and act like a victim. Society did this to Mayella before she ever even saw the light of day, Mayella is from the Ewell family who everyone knows is the charity case of the town. Whether it’s a good or bad thing is hard to tell because Mayella tried her hardest to turn that into a good thing.

Society influenced every character in To Kill a Mockingbird in many more ways than one. People in the everyday world feel the stress and pressure of the world to conform to its standards, even if those standards aren’t who the people see themselves as being. Harper Lee and her protagonist, Scout, in To Kill a Mockingbird truly capture how, in such a short time, society can pressure playful girls into becoming the standard southern bell or rowdy boys into men. In the days of this setting, people weren't always given a choice or option of who they wanted to be. Too often in that time children were pressured to be exactly how they were expected to be in society. Men and women traded the flow of children's creativity for conformity instead.

Throughout the film To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many themes and important sociological concepts. Three sociological concepts that will be applied to the film are racism, prejudice, and social stratification. Racism can be defined as the attribution of characteristics of superiority or inferiority to a population sharing certain physically inherited characteristics (Giddens, Dumeier, Appelbaum, and Carr 2014). Any belief or attitude that favors one racial group over another is an example of racism (Dykstra-Crookshanks, 2015). Racism is a branch term of prejudice that looks at the variety of distinctions between individuals (Giddens et al. 2014).

There are many defining moments in society when individuals make differences. For one to change surroundings, and make a situation better is a great task. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows how this could happen. Atticus Finch, Link Deas, and Boo Radley all made courageous actions that changed their families, society and town.

Throughout time people have been influenced and shaped by Society. The society around you wants you to conform to certain ideas and aspects. Some of these influences could better you as a person and help you grow while others ideas and morals can change you as a person for the better or for the worse. Some people respect your choices not to conform to their ideas and beliefs and other people could care less about your own thoughts and opinions. These can also be known as positive and negative influencers.

For my product, I will be writing a children's book about K-Pop. It will contain some basic information and exciting facts that will show the bright side of the industry to the young children. The book will be at least ten pages. This will be a physical object because it is a hard copy book and will also be a skill. It can be considered a skill because I will be learning on how to write a book.

In the history of ancient world, where the power rested in the hands of men, there exists one woman who eclipses all other of her own time. In the prism of popular culture, her name became a byword for beauty, luxury and intelligence. More than that, her story is twined with one of the most powerful historians like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. She is of course, the last pharaoh of Egypt, "Cleopatra". Cleopatra, though she ruled for a short period, has a strong impression in the public consciousness because she was able to sustain an empire at the peaks of ever-expanding Roman empire. Moreover, the empire she established was very powerful.