Racial Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

“In ones and twos, men got out of the cars. Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door. Atticus remained where he was. The men hid him from view,” says the author, Harper Lee in To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee 202). Harper Lee was an author who lived during the great depression and segregation; however, To Kill A Mockingbird is the only novel she had published in 50 years until one year before her passing. The setting is in Maycomb, Alabama, early 1930s, higher classes and lower classes. Segregation played a big rule in this novel, there were separated churches, bathrooms, schools, and many more (Lee 3-376). Themes are lessons that try to get a point across. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee has the themes of

Scout had many circumstances where she was forced to do some things because she is a lady. Her Aunt Alexandra expects her to dress and act like a lady. Scout does not think she is fit to act or dress like a lady because she had grown up playing with her brother and other boys. Aunt Alexandra feels that because Scout is a girl, she should be more ladylike, though Scout is more of a masculine human. Scout was telling Jem that boys don’t cook, she claims it is more of a woman’s job. After that, Jean Louise learned how boys and girls are treated differently. The jury in the court are men. During Tom Robinson’s trial, the judge was a male. The judge was Judge Taylor, and the jury were mostly farmers (Lee 219). Men and women should all be treated equally no matter what. It should not matter whether you are a male or

While Jem and Scout were walking home Bob Ewell attacked them. Boo Radley showed up and took out Mr. Ewell. Then, Boo carried Jem home. “A man was passing under it. The man was walking with staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him” (Lee 352). The children of Maycomb are all afraid of the Radley house because of the rumors of Boo Radley (Arthur Radley). They tend to play games with the house and if they touch it they think of it as winning. “Anybody who went up to the house once oughta not to still run every time he passes it” (Lee 31). Atticus was defending Tom Robinson during his accusations. Atticus asked Mayella many questions about the night Tom Robinson had supposedly raped her. She was worried he was mocking her because he was asking about her friends, family, and school. Even when times are tough, never be afraid to be the bigger