The Effects of Tradition in To Kill a Mockingbird The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a fictional story that paints a picture of how life was in the 1930s. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County, a fictional town in southern Alabama; similar to the town Harper Lee grew up in. All through out the 1800s, there was a substantial amount of hate toward African Americans. Unfortunately, this stuck with many people through the traditions of one generation passing it down to another. In To Kill a Mockingbird, many of the adults show an excessive amount of hatred toward African Americans and other people that are unique or different, leaving their children to be the same way. Therefore, in To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finch family’s experience with the close minded views of the townspeople show that tradition affects the lives of individuals in a negative way, leaving traces of racism, hate, and cruelness.
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An example was Scout acting like a boy. Scout states, “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stove tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace” (Lee 108). In the novel, Aunt Alexandra has the stereotype image how women played a role in society, including girls in dresses, not being able to do hard work, and being very polite and polished. This quote heavily relates to my thesis because all through out history girls and women were thought of as subservient, unsoiled, and respectable. This was taught to be the normal through tradition. Unfortunately this was not the only thing negative being taught through tradition; racism was also part of the normal teachings from parents to
An example was Scout acting like a boy. Scout states, “Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stove tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace” (Lee 108). In the novel, Aunt Alexandra has the stereotype image how women played a role in society, including girls in dresses, not being able to do hard work, and being very polite and polished. This quote heavily relates to my thesis because all through out history girls and women were thought of as subservient, unsoiled, and respectable. This was taught to be the normal through tradition. Unfortunately this was not the only thing negative being taught through tradition; racism was also part of the normal teachings from parents to