To Kill A Mockingbird Equality Essay

Rough Draft Do you think America has changed in regards to equality for all citizens since The Great Depression? In fact many believe it has not, including myself. In this education unit, we have read a very controversial novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, watched a few TED talks, researched articles for this topic, and had in-class discussions about the commonalities between this topic and the novel. There are many reasons why we see America as it was back in the 1930’s, such as gender inequality, socio-economics, and ageism, but ethnicity inequality stood out to me the most. I will be giving reasons why I believe race and ethnicity remain as of the reasons America has not changed in respect(regards) to equality within citizens. To begin with, when we read the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, we as a class noticed some ethnicity inequality and racial events. For example, there was a time when everyone was at the trial, and Judge Taylor asked Tom Robinson what his feeling were towards Mayella Ewell, and Tom said he felt “sorry for her”. This is significant because since Tom Robinson is a black man, and black men were considered lower than the white person in all ways., Ppeople thought it was a crime for Tom Robinson to “feel sorry” for Mayella Ewell because he was black and she was white. This is an example of inequality between races. It

For example, Ii think a good idea would be to ask people that are racist why they feel that way about colored people andor their ethnicity, and maybe by doing this we can have honest answers, and create solutions to this problem. I am not saying that white people only have the right to express their feelings, we would have to ask black racist people their opinions as well. Ii think this idea might work, we can obtain reasons of why people act so discriminant towards only certain ethnicities or other races as