Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

In today's society is perfectly fine to be who you'd like to be. The judgmental levels with people are dropping; however, some older people still don't believe that you should act any different then how they were raised. In the 1930s there society believed it was inhuman to love or have any form of relationship with another race. Today, gay marriage is legal in all states, where back in the 1930s where the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place this was never thought of. Today our society is laid back, it's not expected to see girls in dresses anymore. Everything has changed since the 1930s majority of what was unthinkable back then is acceptable now. It's okay to be different. You can be and do what ever you like as long as it …show more content…
They are perceived to be polite and proper and act and dress like a lady. However, scout portrays it's okay not to act like a girl, and that it's alright to be different. "I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away. Immediately... Fine—but do you have to wear overalls"( Lee 136). In the book Scout despises dresses with a passion. However, she is forced to wear them to church and school. Scout, unless forced otherwise, with wear her overalls. She believes they're more comfortable and she can move easier within them. Dresses hold her back because stiff and uncomfortable and overalls too girly for her. During this time girls were supposed to wear dresses for them to wear pants in obscured. However, Atticus allows scout to be different and leisure her own comfort. However, her wearing overalls doesn't determine her gender. Scout is a tom boy were she rather wear pants and have fun then dress prudish and cook and …show more content…
Girls, however, were to be inside learning how to cook and clean, using manners, being polite, they were to be very lady like. However, Scout didn't want to clean or cook , she loved hanging out with Jem and eventually Dill. She wanted to be with them, she wanted to run around and get dirty. "When we were small, Jem and I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood..."( Lee 99). Scout ran all over town with her brother and did several make like activities. They always were having run and playing another game. "'Well are we gong to play anything or not?''Lets roll in the tire...'"(Lee 37). Scout wasn't the average girl. She played outside, got dirty, hung out with her brother and their friend Dill. Girls at this time weren't to be outside, therefore this made scout different then the other girls. Scout ran around, rolled in tires, got dirty, went on adventures with her