Why Is To Kill A Mockingbird Still Relevant Today

“N*****-lover. trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring Negroes over and above themselves” (Lee, 124). In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, uses strong words such as slurs throughout the novel to emphasize on the fact that segregation caused people to be racist towards each other during that time. While segregation was occurring in the 1930’s, African Americans and whites were separated in schools, transportation, churches, and more. On top of African Americans being segregated from whites, they also did not have the same equal rights as whites did. While there is bad or offensive language in the novel, the language used gives grave detail about just how bad racism was back then and how it can also be significant to today's

In “Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ should be taught”, the author explains that, “this novel is now more relevant than ever with our country still dealing with segregation and discrimination” (Misa, 5). This shows how although the novel was based on the 1930’s and the problems during that time, it also discloses to students and readers about how today's world still prominently has discrimination and how it still occurs on a daily basis. In “Here’s why we teach To Kill A Mockingbird”, the article explains how the “book not only introduces teenagers to the problems of the past, but also leads them to make connections to the world which they live in today, making this decades-old work very relevant” (Shannon, 4). This explains that the book teaches about the problems of the 1930’s, but also teaches students about how today's world can relate to the past and how there was never a full transition throughout time to where racism completely went away. Lastly, the language that Lee uses in To Kill A Mockingbird emphasizes on how bad the racism was back then, which gives the readers a better understanding throughout the