Theme Of Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee writes tons of stereotypes in her book To Kill a Mockingbird to show that you can exist as your own person with confidence in who you are yet still get picked on in hopes of conforming to the beliefs of others personal requirements, just to be seen a certain way in others eyes. One important character named Scout was a tomboy in a time of harsh ridicule. Scout was very comfortable in her choices. She accepts herself as she is not realizing that she happens to star in the spotlight of harassment from female characters such as her own blood, Aunt Alexandra, including outside members such as Mrs. Dubose, and many other female characters. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has many examples of the use of forced gender roles that portray …show more content…
All of these things lead to the making of stereotypes, with the creation of female and male voices used in the book. This book radiates through the eyes of a child including the sensitivity involved in their feelings about what’s going on. To Kill a Mockingbird “shows that moral values are not necessarily absolute” (Alice) in making “the world more livable for oneself and others” (Alice). People were simple minded with the expectations that the world to revolve in a certain direction, their direction, and societies direction. As Scout, the main character, lives her life, she gets put through painful, bitter experiences that shape her into the young human she has become, a tomboy. One experience she encounters is when she’s attending her first day at school with a cringe of thought about wearing a dress like every other lady. In one scene in her new class, the teacher Miss Caroline teaches her first-grade class the alphabet. Since Scout already knows it very well, she puts Miss Caroline’s teaching theory to the test and ends up acing the subject as