To Kill a Mockingbird focused on many aspects of roles and stereotypes and the exposure of innocents to what the community is expected to do. Gender roles were a very large struggle for main character Scout who was commonly influenced by her older brother Jem that anything girls did were bad and boy things were better. It was a struggle for her to get the community to understand that being a girl had less to do with what she's born with and more to do with who she is as a person.
Scout and Jem Finch were raised in Maycomb county, a small town in Alabama where everybody knew each other and how they contributed to society. They were raised by their widower father Atticus, who looked past people's roles and stereotypes and saw them for who they
Scout and Jem Finch were raised in Maycomb county, a small town in Alabama where everybody knew each other and how they contributed to society. They were raised by their widower father Atticus, who looked past people's roles and stereotypes and saw them for who they