To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

The Fall of Innocence To Kill a Mockingbird is a book of progression and important themes that are still in use today. Throughout the book, we see the fight between the lower-class and upper-class citizens. We even see lower-class citizens turn to other people considered lower-class. As explained by Jem, the town is split up into four classes, the ordinary upper-middle class, the poor who make an effort, the poor who make no effort, and citizens who are black. If you try to bring yourself above or act above that class, you are ridiculed and shunned for it. In chapter 19 of the novel, Tom Rombison explains, “I felt right sorry for her [...]”(Lee 224). Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling. The witness realized his mistake and shifted

Children know where they and their families stand at a young age and others rebel and make the people “lower” than them feel bad. This is something that is still very common today and makes reading To Kill a Mockingbird important so we can see the change we need. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, we are informed that social inequality leads to the loss of innocence and disorder in society, we are shown the loss of innocence through Mr. Raymond, and the internal thoughts of Scout, especially shown in her relationship with Walter, and we see both destruction and the loss of innocence in the trail with Tom Robinson. Mr. Doulphus Raymond is not the main character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, but he and his family are the precise examples of the loss of innocence because of social inequality. During the period Scout was narrating the book, Doulphus was known as the town drunk. Scout wonders how he could be drunk when he does not look like

The people in the mob try to attack Tom Robinson, but the people who go to attack him are from the lower class, making it seem like they are just trying to make themselves feel better about themselves. “Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know—doesn't say much to them, does it?”(Lee 97). Atticus explains this quote to Scout, in chapter 16, trying to explain why Mr. Cunningham was in the mob. Atticus is trying to explain that when in a mob you act differently than you normally would and even though Mr. Cunningham is trying to raise himself on the social tier by harming those below him it does not necessarily mean he is completely in the wrong. At the end of the day, most are trying to move up in social status and they do not care in those moments who get hurt. Due to social classes and social disparity, innocence gets ruined, and disorder spreads through the town, as we see in Doulpas Rayman, Scout and Walter, and the Tom Robinson trial. Doulphus Raymond is seen being shamed for how he lives and for the societal class his family now shares, and in the act loses his