In To Kill a Mockingbird there are lots of racial, gender, and religious, discrimination. Which is shown a multiple amount of times throughout the novel.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee which takes place in Maycomb Alabama, where there is a lot of racial discrimination. But there is also some gender, and religious, discrimination. The main Characters of the book are Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch.
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author gives the reader insight into how racial, gender, and religious discrimination, impact the community of Maycomb.
There are many times when racial discrimination is shown in the novel, like when Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church and Lula tells them many times that …show more content…
Once she gets in the tire Jem pushes her as hard as he can. She later crashes into a barrier which knocks her out of the tire and into the Radley yard. Once she realizes that she is in the Radley yard she freezes then slowly walks out of the yard but does not grab the tire, instead she tells Jem to grab the tire so grabs it then tells Scout she acts like a girl so much it mortifying. “See there Jem was scowling triumphantly Nothin‘ to it I swear …show more content…
This is just one example of lots of gender discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. There is another example of it in Chapter 4 when Atticus catches Dill, Jem, and Scout playing Boo Radley, which was the game that Jem made, and they were trying to figure out if Atticus knew that was the game that they were playing, and Scout said that she was not so sure that he knew, so Jem tells her that she was being a girl and that girls always imagined things, and if she started behaving like one she go off and find someone else to play with. “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” (Lee 54). Another example of gender discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Dill, Jem, and Scout sneak out at night to look inside the Radley house to see if they can get a look at Boo Radley, and Scout asks why did they wait till night time to take a look inside the house, and Jem says that she is getting more like a girl everyday. “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!” (Lee 69). All of this evidence shows that there is lots of gender discrimination in To Kill a
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee which takes place in Maycomb Alabama, where there is a lot of racial discrimination. But there is also some gender, and religious, discrimination. The main Characters of the book are Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch.
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author gives the reader insight into how racial, gender, and religious discrimination, impact the community of Maycomb.
There are many times when racial discrimination is shown in the novel, like when Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church and Lula tells them many times that …show more content…
Once she gets in the tire Jem pushes her as hard as he can. She later crashes into a barrier which knocks her out of the tire and into the Radley yard. Once she realizes that she is in the Radley yard she freezes then slowly walks out of the yard but does not grab the tire, instead she tells Jem to grab the tire so grabs it then tells Scout she acts like a girl so much it mortifying. “See there Jem was scowling triumphantly Nothin‘ to it I swear …show more content…
This is just one example of lots of gender discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. There is another example of it in Chapter 4 when Atticus catches Dill, Jem, and Scout playing Boo Radley, which was the game that Jem made, and they were trying to figure out if Atticus knew that was the game that they were playing, and Scout said that she was not so sure that he knew, so Jem tells her that she was being a girl and that girls always imagined things, and if she started behaving like one she go off and find someone else to play with. “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” (Lee 54). Another example of gender discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Dill, Jem, and Scout sneak out at night to look inside the Radley house to see if they can get a look at Boo Radley, and Scout asks why did they wait till night time to take a look inside the house, and Jem says that she is getting more like a girl everyday. “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!” (Lee 69). All of this evidence shows that there is lots of gender discrimination in To Kill a