In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, we are introduced to the sleepy yet racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. It’s here that author Harper Lee explores topics such as race, gender, and class discrimination through the eyes of a child. It’s also here that our Narrator Scout Finch is taught various lessons about theses forms of discrimination. Along with these topics, there is also a lot of prejudice against certain characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson that greatly affect other characters.
Sexism is form of discrimination in which attitudes or behavior is based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles, commonly used against women. It relates to the novel because sexism is used quite frequently against Scout. An example of this is in chapter 4 when Scout says 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 some to play with (41).” Also this isn’t the only time Jem talks to Scout like this because in chapter 6 Jem says “Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them(51-52)”. See throughout most of the book Jem looks down on Scout for not acting like a stereotypical Lady. However, as Scout grows up she realizes that it doesn’t matter how she acts or dresses she is a fine girl nothless.
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Sexism is form of discrimination in which attitudes or behavior is based on traditional stereotypes of gender roles, commonly used against women. It relates to the novel because sexism is used quite frequently against Scout. An example of this is in chapter 4 when Scout says 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 some to play with (41).” Also this isn’t the only time Jem talks to Scout like this because in chapter 6 Jem says “Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shut your trap or go home—I declare to the Lord you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them(51-52)”. See throughout most of the book Jem looks down on Scout for not acting like a stereotypical Lady. However, as Scout grows up she realizes that it doesn’t matter how she acts or dresses she is a fine girl nothless.
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