How can there ever be love in a world full of darkness, oppression and hate? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout lives in a time period full of hatred towards certain people, such as African Americans. She and her comrades (Dill and Jem) grow up right before our eyes, learning the trials of life. However, not everything has a light at the end of a tunnel. Even after the evils of hatred and the prejudice tainted them, there is always a home for them to go back to, the home of Atticus Finch. Maycomb County may at some times seem ghastly, but at the end of the day there are exceptional people who exist in this small town. As these kids develop over the course of a few summers; everlasting love, good versus bad, and the oppression
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Growing up Scout has learned a lot about how a woman should act and why being a girl isn’t ideal for most situations. Scout constantly hears the words spewed from Jems mouth on how women/girls are lesser from the opposed man. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find someone to play with.” (Lee 54) Scout knows it’s not okay to act like a girl, and when she does Jem comes on with an onslaught of words that assaults the human nature of a woman. Provided, being told how to act should have nothing to do with your gender. Time and time again we have learned in literature and as well as in To Kill a Mockingbird being a man is the supreme role. A woman should not even be in the discussion of making decisions, let alone being a role player of the society. “Atticus cheerfully remarks that if women were allowed on juries, ‘I doubt if we’d ever get a case tried - the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.’” (Lee 296) Atticus Finch, the hero of maycomb uttered these words. Consequently, he is saying that his daughter couldn’t be allowed on a jury because of the way a girl’s mind works. Furthermore, Being a female apparently is a whole excuse for the male population to disregard a woman’s stance on an issue. Even Atticus can’t see that women need a bigger role in society. Women are always seen as lesser, even outside the border of America. The lives of women are often disregarded and seen as something to use for male needs. “Victoria’s odyssey began when she was 17, fresh out of school… At the border she was handed over to a group of Serb men, who produced a new passport… They led her to the foot of Serbia and raped her… Victoria was now a piece of property and, as such, was bought and sold by different brothel owners ten times over.” (Nat Geo,
Growing up Scout has learned a lot about how a woman should act and why being a girl isn’t ideal for most situations. Scout constantly hears the words spewed from Jems mouth on how women/girls are lesser from the opposed man. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find someone to play with.” (Lee 54) Scout knows it’s not okay to act like a girl, and when she does Jem comes on with an onslaught of words that assaults the human nature of a woman. Provided, being told how to act should have nothing to do with your gender. Time and time again we have learned in literature and as well as in To Kill a Mockingbird being a man is the supreme role. A woman should not even be in the discussion of making decisions, let alone being a role player of the society. “Atticus cheerfully remarks that if women were allowed on juries, ‘I doubt if we’d ever get a case tried - the ladies’d be interrupting to ask questions.’” (Lee 296) Atticus Finch, the hero of maycomb uttered these words. Consequently, he is saying that his daughter couldn’t be allowed on a jury because of the way a girl’s mind works. Furthermore, Being a female apparently is a whole excuse for the male population to disregard a woman’s stance on an issue. Even Atticus can’t see that women need a bigger role in society. Women are always seen as lesser, even outside the border of America. The lives of women are often disregarded and seen as something to use for male needs. “Victoria’s odyssey began when she was 17, fresh out of school… At the border she was handed over to a group of Serb men, who produced a new passport… They led her to the foot of Serbia and raped her… Victoria was now a piece of property and, as such, was bought and sold by different brothel owners ten times over.” (Nat Geo,