The quote “to kill a mockingbird” means more than simply killing a bird. The book To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the 1930’s, during the great depression. The book is mainly about a family who deals with social inequalities and sees how others live in many ways. The main inequalities that go on are gender roles, race, age, and wealth. There are many different social inequalities that occur in the novel, as well as in our society. In the book they talk about race and how it occurs in everyday life and how people deal with it. While reading I saw that the blacks are basically nothing compared to the whites. In court the black person always loses against a white person. Tom Robinson, who is black, lost his trial against a white woman, even though there was enough evidence that he was innocent. A specific quote from the book that gives an example about race is “In our courts, when it’s a white man's word against a black man’s, the white man always wins” (pg 295). This quote explains that at the time a black man never wins against a white man. …show more content…
In the novel, gender plays a big part in everyday life. For example when Aunt Alexandra wants to change Scout and make her act like a lady. Also when Jem tells Scout that she always acts like a girl.
A quote that explains gender roles is, “I declare to the lord, you’re acting like a girl more and more everyday” (pg 69). This quote states how people in the 1930’s saw girls as weak people and thought women couldn’t do half the things a man could