Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

Our Culture and Discrimination

One thing that has been around and will always seem to be in our society today is discrimination. Discrimination is the separation of different races, sexes, cultures, and even age. These prejudices are everywhere, in books, movies, television, and most commonly, social media. Discrimination may not be as common in our small community, but it is still present in the littlest unidentifiable forms. Our culture is full of discrimination.

Seeing discrimination in books, movies, television, and social media has a lasting impact on those who see or hear it. If not influenced prior by their parents or guardians, viewing or hearing the prejudices will greatly affect the minds of young adolescents. For example, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, (1) written by Harper Lee and published in 1960, gives a first person point of view of the prejudices during The Great Depression from the eyes of a little girl. Scout Finch, the

One of the most influential broadcasts of discrimination is in movies and on social media. For example, algorithms on social media filter what and whom you see. These social media platforms do not ask you whom you’d like to see or not see, which is an example of discrimination on social media. It is safe to say that in movies that discrimination is glorified or magnified and deemed to sometimes be appropriate. The movie, A Time To Kill (2) shows us exactly what it would be like in the south during the 1980’s. The movie touches about every single aspect of discrimination, from two white men raping an African American girl. Carl Lee, an African American man, kills these two men out of rage and is put on trial. Being in the deep south he experiences being discriminated against by the jury, the judge, and the prosecutor. If all that was not enough for viewers, the KKK is brought into the mix, and we see exactly how something like this would blow up in the