“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” In Harper's compelling story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout grow up in a world full of countless injustices going on around them and they still need to stay strong to what their father has taught them. The three most significant themes in To Kill A Mockingbird are an Illusion of Power, Growing up and the Power of Words.
In the 1930’s and still now white people act ignorantly in the knowledge that black and white people are equal. There is a belief that all black people are under white people and they should be treated …show more content…
The boy is allowed to be outside playing, but girls are thought to be lesser than them in the way that they only can do the tasks of a woman and nothing else. Scout, who has been raised by only a father and their maid Calpurnia, has always played with her brother and the dirt has been her favorite oasis. Her Aunt looks upon her with disgust since she cannot believe that this girl, who should be cooking and sewing is playing in the mud. In today's society everyone is supposed to be thought of as equal, but unfortunately this does not happen as a result of white people still have the illusion of power. “Maybe it was a few weeks later, when a South Carolina jury deadlocked because the panel — most of them white — could not agree that it was a crime for a police officer to shoot an unarmed black man in the back”(Pitts 1). Today the world has somehow painted a picture of equalness but it still somehow isn’t always there. Some black people are still called nigger and some black
In the 1930’s and still now white people act ignorantly in the knowledge that black and white people are equal. There is a belief that all black people are under white people and they should be treated …show more content…
The boy is allowed to be outside playing, but girls are thought to be lesser than them in the way that they only can do the tasks of a woman and nothing else. Scout, who has been raised by only a father and their maid Calpurnia, has always played with her brother and the dirt has been her favorite oasis. Her Aunt looks upon her with disgust since she cannot believe that this girl, who should be cooking and sewing is playing in the mud. In today's society everyone is supposed to be thought of as equal, but unfortunately this does not happen as a result of white people still have the illusion of power. “Maybe it was a few weeks later, when a South Carolina jury deadlocked because the panel — most of them white — could not agree that it was a crime for a police officer to shoot an unarmed black man in the back”(Pitts 1). Today the world has somehow painted a picture of equalness but it still somehow isn’t always there. Some black people are still called nigger and some black