Rosa Parks In To Kill A Mockingbird

Scout and Calpurnia created a connection to the famous reality figure Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks fought for desegregation in the southern states in 1955. Parks quickly became an icon of collective resistance by refusing to forfeit her seat to a white passenger on board at Montgomery. This situation was similar to Scout and Calpurnia’s positive defense against the Jim Crow laws. Scout changed the men’s mind who were against Atticus and tried to lynch Tom Robinson. She realized how important it is to teach each person with respect and value their dignity. According to Letort, “One of the reasons why Parks story has received so much attention with this dominant mythology of the civil rights movement is that it can be condensed down to the basic elements

A white person was considered to have greater taste and quality, which influenced the assumption that all blacks were immoral beings and not trusted to be around white women. Scout demonstrated a difference in social status between the Cunningham’s and the Finches when she reacted to Walter Cunningham pouring dark syrup over his meat and vegetables. Scout’s brother Jem explained the class division of Maycomb by categorizing the four types of people in the town’s society. In relations to the Jim Crow laws, the people who were ranked from highest to lowest of respect were the Ordinary, Poor, live off the government, and finally at the bottom of degradation were black people. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Maycomb considered the black people to be unsuccessful, African-American, and least respectable as Jem stated, “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, and there’s the kind like the Cunningham’s out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes” (258). In To Kill a Mockingbird, the issues of class in the town of Maycomb truly acknowledged the fact that the color of a person’s skin determined their status in

Gender roles were related to socioeconomic status, which provided characteristics to the Jim Crow laws. Can you imagine elevating one half of the population, criticize the other half, and produce a population where everyone is the same? According to Levit, “Society constructs two separate gender cultures, and the beliefs, social practices, and institutions that separate the sexes disadvantage both females and males” (15). The paramount importance of behavioral differences between male and female are aggression and nurturing. In To Kill a Mockingbird, these characteristics were similar to the narrator Scout, who did not want to act like a lady and showed aggression by fighting in the school with Cecil over the Tom Robinson trial. Scout nurtured herself in the novel by learning life’s lessons and acknowledged the value of dignity in a person’s soul. Scout’ feeling towards