There are lots moral issues within society with things like racism and prejudice. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about a young girl, Scout (ages 6-9 throughout the book), who grows up in the town of Maycomb, a town the author made up it’s a small town in Alabama during the Great Depression, with her only sibling Jem and widow father Atticus. In the book Scout tells the audience her story from many years ago. Her stories of prejudice. Her father’s workmen ship, racism in the small town and other moral issues in Maycomb in 1926 The moral issues within TKAM (To kill a mocking bird) is seen throughout the book, the main issues being racism against Negros (niggas) and prejudice against people who protect them and believe in the same rights for everyone. Her father, Atticus, defends Tom Robinson who is a Negro and a hardworking honest man. This causes upset within the town and he begins to be …show more content…
Making the point of view from a child’s perspective is a smart way of putting your opinions of the world into a book. This is because Scout is still a young and devious child who has not formed her own opinions about society and the author puts her in situations that back up her opinions such as when Scout visits her family. Her cousin, Francis, says that Atticus is a nigger lover even though Scout not knowing what it fully meant she hits him in the mouth defending Atticus, Uncle Jack hits her for hitting Francis and cussing. Uncle Jack asks Scout what Francis said about Atticus and she says that he called him: "A nigger-lover” said on page 86 and she doesn’t know what it means yet still took offence. This references the moral issues in society and how Scout is too young to understand what it