From what I have noticed from reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the theme of gender equality affects the way females are portrayed and even treated. After retrieving the tire from Boo Radley’s front yard, Jem, Scout’s older brother says, “I swear Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’” (page 50). Jem implies that being a girl is portrayed as being an annoyance or even dead weight to him as well as not wanting to hang out with them at all. This correlates with how women in today’s modern society are seen as a hindrance to a certain degree.
The book stays true to its intended timeline. In addition to females being treated unfairly, African Americans are treated even worse, which eventually leads to Scout being …show more content…
An example of the one of the novel’s mockingbirds is Jem Finch, a boy whose innocence crumbled as he was witnessing the tragedy of prejudice in the Tom Robinson case. “His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd”...“It ain’t right Atticus” (284). Scout’s description of the crowd being cheerful implies they are content with Tom’s verdict revealing the injustice Jem witnessed. This resulted in the loss of his innocent view on the world after being exposed to the harsh reality of human …show more content…
“If your father’s anything, he’s civilized in his heart. Marksmanship’s a gift of God,”...”put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things” (130). Harper Lee has yet again cleverly woven a metaphor into another part of the story. I interpret “put his gun down” as a translation into “stopped judging without consideration”. Atticus has the trait of treating every single person with equality, and before jumping the “gun”, he considers what the truth actually
The book stays true to its intended timeline. In addition to females being treated unfairly, African Americans are treated even worse, which eventually leads to Scout being …show more content…
An example of the one of the novel’s mockingbirds is Jem Finch, a boy whose innocence crumbled as he was witnessing the tragedy of prejudice in the Tom Robinson case. “His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd”...“It ain’t right Atticus” (284). Scout’s description of the crowd being cheerful implies they are content with Tom’s verdict revealing the injustice Jem witnessed. This resulted in the loss of his innocent view on the world after being exposed to the harsh reality of human …show more content…
“If your father’s anything, he’s civilized in his heart. Marksmanship’s a gift of God,”...”put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things” (130). Harper Lee has yet again cleverly woven a metaphor into another part of the story. I interpret “put his gun down” as a translation into “stopped judging without consideration”. Atticus has the trait of treating every single person with equality, and before jumping the “gun”, he considers what the truth actually