Social Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

In Harper Lee’s book,”To Kill a Mockingbird”, there were social issues like discrimination, lack of equality, and human rights. These issues were really effectively illustrated in the book, and they are important for the world the know. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper lee explains how people of certain groups were discriminated against, stereotyped, and treated unequally.
First, discrimination was very common in the book, For example,”In Lee’s novel of a small town, the Africanist presence is muted in the spite of the trial in which an innocent black man by the name Tom Robinson was accused of rapeing a white woman named Mayella Ewell, (Baeker). This states how the people of Maycomb think just by knowing it’s a black man that he should be accused.
Also in the book we meet a women named Calpurnia who was a housemaid for Atticus Finch, she was like a …show more content…
There was a discrimination, less rights, equality, and stereotyping back then. In conclusion these were the things that black men, women, and little girls had to go through. There is still some of this stuff happening to us until this day. So, if this is happening to anybody you know help them and make sure you cheer them up and tell them about what happened back in the day.

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Richards,Gary.”Harper Lee and the Destabilization of Heterosexuality.” Critical Insights: To kill a mockingbird.Ed.Don Noble. Hackensack: salem, 2009 .n.pag. Salem Online.Web.09 Nov.2017 (-- removed HTML --)
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