Harper Lee is known for her best-selling novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. This story was taken place in the 1930’s where there was prejudice in the Southern society. It’s told from the point of view of 6 year old Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Through Scout’s point of view, Harper Lee demonstrated how people were biasedly treated and to show us the reality of society back then. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee demonstrates the importance of justice, gender differences, and racial inequality in the South. Justice was something hard to come by in the 1930’s when the courts were biased to only one side of the society. The author approaches this topic through Tom Robinson when he was accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Even if Tom was innocent, he’s still a colored person, so he was upholded as guilty and died as he attempted to escape. In chapter 23, Atticus said, "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.” This shows how unfair colored men were treated by the color of their skin. …show more content…
They force girls to look alike and it puts too much pressure on them. Lee describes Scout as a tomboy that doesn’t act like the traditional girl society expects her to be. In chapter 14, Scout said, “I felt like the starched walls of a pink cotton candy penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately.” Scout doesn’t wear dresses, she wears overalls; she doesn’t stay in the house, she goes outside to play. Lee showed that just because you’re a girl, it doesn’t mean that you’d have to act like