Theme Of Gender Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

The novel To Kill a MockingBird is about what is happened in the life of Jean Louise Finch aka Scout the Main Character. Throughout the novel To Kill a MockingBird, the author Harper Lee gives the reader insight into haw discrimination about racial, gender, socioeconomic affects the community. To Kill a MockingBird takes place in Maycomb,Alabama. This story takes place in the 1930s.Some main characters in the novel are Atticus Scout and Jem’s father, Scout, Jem, Calpurnia is a black women who takes care of Jem and Scout. In the novel To Kill a MockingBird there is a lot of socioeconomic discrimination. In the Novel there is a family called The Cunninghams and they are very poor but they work very hard. “Miss Caroline went to her desk and opened

In this quote it shows gender discrimination. “But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl”(Lee 55). This quote shows how it bothers Scout when they call her a girl even when she is a girl. Here is another quote showing gender discrimination. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagine things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with” (Lee 54). This quote also shows how Scout thinks that being called a girl is bad when it is not. In this quote it also shows gender discrimination when Jem is talking to Scout. “ Jem was scowling triumphantly. ‘Nothin‘ to it. I swear, Scout,sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’ ”(Lee 50). So in this quote it says that it is mortifyin to be a

In this first quote shows a lot of racial remarks. “ “My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an‘ that nigger oughta hang from the water-tank!”(Lee 102). This quote shows how the people of Maycomb are being racist because they want Tom Robinson who supposedly raped a white female to hanged from a water-tank. The is a person in the story that is called Francis who is very racist towards black people. “Francis rose and sprinted down the catwalk to the old kitchen. At a safe distance he called, “He’s nothin‘ but a nigger-lover!”(Lee 110). In this quote it shows how Francis is being racist and mean to Atticus and Tom Robinson. He is being racist to Tom because he is black and he is being mean to Atticus is because he is backing up Tom Robinson and Francis is calling Atticus a nigger-lover. Another person who is racist in the novel is known as Mrs.Dubose and she is racist towards black people as well. In this quote Mrs. Dubose also says that Atticus is backing up black people and trash. “ Jem said softly, “She said you lawed for niggers and trash” (Lee 138). So in this quote she is referring black people as trash and that they are