Examples Of Conformity In To Kill A Mockingbird

Conformity: What Is A Mockingbird? Let’s say you’re the last one to answer a question, it’s a choice question, and everybody chooses the answer you don’t agree with. Are you still going to get the answer you want? To Kill A Mockingbird is a story that has the subject conformity in it. Conformity is when someone acts how the majority acts either in a positive or negative way. A mockingbird is not just a bird in this book, it’s a symbol. A mockingbird symbolizes innocence, unfortunately in this book this symbol has a twist. A mockingbird is innocent but gets treated poorly, in other words it doesn't get the treatment it deserves. In To KIll A Mockingbird, conformity in society has turned Tom Robison and Boo Radley into “mockingbirds” due to

In the article “conformity” it says “Being different from the group carries the risk of social rejection, a deep fear of many people. The drive to conform is often particularly for adolescents, for whom acceptance by peers can be a primary goal but it affects people of all ages” Harrison. This quote shows that conformity is all a social thing. You could be saying that it mainly affects kids, but it can have an affect on anybody, including adults. We all love to be accepted, usually not rejected. We see conformity mainly during the Tom Robison trial. For example on page 238 it says “now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man…” Lee. This example gives us the biggest piece of conformity. Earlier in the book when the witnesses were giving their side of the story, there is clear evidence that Tom is innocent but since he is a man of color and outside of the norm people are going to convict him guilty due to the risk of social

He only wanted some friends. On page 39 it says “Indian-heads, he said nineteen-six and scout, one of ‘em’s nineteen-hundred. These are really old. Nineteen-hundred, I echoed say- hush a minute I’m thinking. Jem you reckon that’s somebody’s hiding place.” Lee. This quote shows how Boo Radley is kind. Yes that knot hole in the tree was sorta his hiding place, but he could be purposely leaving things in there more than just once, giving Jem and Scout stuff on purpose, small acts of kindness. On page 14 it says “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks he dined on raw squirrels and any cat he would catch, that’s why his hands were blood-stained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.” Lee. Since Everyone had stories of heard stories they always made false descriptions of Boo, without knowing who/what he was actually like. This info proves he’s a mockingbird because all making birds do is bring kind beautiful music into this world, and all he did was small acts of kindness for Scout and Jem but since there were awful rumors about him, no one truly knew the real