The book catches the reader's attention and readers explain the book as the couldn’t put the book down once they started reading it and it was page gripping. The book comments on the social and racial divisions in the south when the “colored folks” did not have the same rights as white people did. The book also took place during the great depression which had an impact on the lives of the Macomb …show more content…
Even throughout the whole story Jem multiple times tells Scout that girls are “disgusting and embaressing”. When Dill starts following and believing for the none sense of what Jem said he started to treat Scout as if she was just an object an example of that is when Scout brought up what Dill had told her: “ He had asked me earlier the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said i was the only girl he would love, then he neglected me”. Scout presistently neglects the notion that women are a form of property. Scout stands in opposition to the idea that you have to be a,b or c in order to be a ‘perfect’ woman. Eventhough there are limits to where scout can act like a boy like when Jem and DIll spend afternoons swimming in a creek naked. While the two boys go swimming “naked” Scout has to stay the rest of the hours with Calpurnia and Miss Maudie who both help Scout in being herself rather than being a perfect ‘woman”. Calpurnia supports Scouts independence and Miss Maudie bolsters Scouts confidence whenever she is ridiculed for wearing pants. Another important reason for gender dicrimination is because neither of these women are able to serve the jury of the Maycomb county “because there