To Kill A Mockingbird Social Inequality Analysis

“We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe,” says Atticus, “some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more than others, some ladies make better cakes than others – some people are gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.” In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story takes place in the early 1930s to the late 1950s, in a place called Maycomb County, Alabama. During this time, racism and social inequality were at their primes. White people were thought to be superior to everyone else and were treated with respect and equality to one another, while people of color were disrespected and treated unequally and unfairly. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the people of Maycomb County are classed by name, land, and reputation. “There’s four kinds of folks in the world,” said Jem to Scout, “there’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump,

As a young adult, Nathan Radley was a troublemaker, he went against the law, terrorized citizens of Maycomb County and was an overall bad kid. During his late teen years, Nathan Radley was one day cutting out pictures from a newspaper when his father walked by his place on the couch. “…he drove the scissors into his parents leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities.” (Page 11) . Ever since that day nobody has seen or heard from him. “Inside the (Radley) house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him.” Said Scout, “People said that he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows. When peoples azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he has breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.” (Page