Reviewed TKAM Essay: Stereotyping Racial comments and stereotyping is something that the world is filled with and it’s become an everyday thing. We choose to hurt others so that we feel better that is not okay. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we follow along as the author leads us through Maycomb’s towns people’s lives in the 1930’s. As we shadow Atticus and his family we learn some background on his family as well as other characters. As we read along we experience some of the problems in the town like stereotyping as well as other ones. Although not being like others in this case not being stereotypical it may lead to some consequences, but in the end things won’t be that bad. Think about it there may be some obstacles …show more content…
We can start to notice racism growing as Atticus children grow up. Through the course of two years in the characters lives we can take Scout and Jem 2 Munoz as an example of racism starting to be more noticeable. At the beginning of the book Scout and Jem believe that everyone in Maycomb is innocent that there are no good and evil people, but that’s not true: “That spring was a good one: the days grew longer and this gave us more playing time” (147). This is a quote that’s showing us that little Scout and Jem were young children who were unaware of the real world, they didn’t care for much other than playing. But this changed as they grew up growing up helped them observe their surroundings helping them realize that evil or bad, as some might say does exist. In chapter seventeen the kids hear Ewell say a very disturbing comment that would be considered racist. “ I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” (231). Reading this we see how Ewell expresses the town’s views on black people, we can all agree that having a child hear this isn’t good for their mentality. Jem and Scout slowly start to realize that not everyone thinks the same way. At this point in their lives they they want to start helping out in their community to fix this