To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes

Quote 1: “I felt like I was a king, like I was better than them.” –3rd-grader

The quote is similar to something that happens in the novel:

Both Jane Elliott and Harper Lee make a point. When two groups are separated in someway one always acts better than the other. In Jane Elliott's experiment she made the third graders believe that the blue eyed people were better,than the brown eyed people. Therefore when she gave the blue eyed people more freedom than the brown eyed people, the blue eyed people started feeling like kings because they thought they were better, and were treated better. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout asks Jem to join him and Dill they say no because she is a girl and she is not good enough for them. Jem is always

The same thing is being shown here in Elliott's experiment, she separated the blue eyed and the brown eyed. When elliott told the class that the brown eyed were slow, some of them disagreed and then she started pointing out instances that they were slow.The class just needed a bit reinforcement from an authoritative figure (in this case was the teacher) so that the class eve the brown eyed could believe that the brown eyed were slow. In Lee’s book Jem separated himself from scout therefore showing discrimination between boys and girls. There are 3 types of separation. In history when blacks and whites were separated all they needed was a bit of opinion and a reason to believe that blacks were different because of their color, then the stereotype was born and more and more people started believing it which built up discrimination due to race. This stereotype separated our society leaving a large impact on the world as a whole. In the book Harper Lee has Jem be the “king” and makes him better just because he is a boy and is older than scout. Therefore when scout asks if she can join Jem and Dill,they say no.Here in the real world we see discrimination against women. Stereotypes with enough information and opinion for the majority to believe and then enforce it in society. Women are portrayed as not as strong as men they are sometimes referred to as weak in the book instance Jem tells Scout not to cry like a girl.

Not until the kids were put under the experiment did they understand the freedom they had compared to black persons. Often we don't appreciate something until it's gone .Here the little third graders that were white didn’t appreciate their freedom until it was taken away and they were put in someone else's spot. The kid in the video that sad this quote was right when you are discriminated upon you feel like a dog on a leash because all of the freedom you had is taken away from you and you are left with very little to live off of. The theme of prejudice or preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience roams here because stereotypes are gained from the prejudice of someone who was followed by the majority. In Elliott's experiment she gave the kids in the class prejudice and they believed it and enforced it as followers of this stereotype. At the end of her experiment she asks how they felt and the blue eyed said like kings because they were the ones judging the brown eyed while the brown eyed replied they felt like a dog on a leash because even if they wanted to do something they couldn't because the majority that were blue eyed believed against them and the opposite happened the next day. Lee wrote "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.