All men are created equal. That is at least what they say. According to our founding fathers, all men are created equal. Most people know that this is not the case. Everybody should be be treated equal. When I say everybody, I am not excluding any races, any sexualities, or any religions. I mean every last person on this earth. When I think about equality I like to think about S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. In Hinton’s book you have the different social classes. One of these classes believe they are better than the other. In Lee’s book there is discrimination at its finest. These books directly correlate to each other and even today's reality.
S. E. Hinton speaks through Ponyboy in The Outsiders by saying, “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her …show more content…
Jem says, “There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the negroes,” (Lee). Scout refuses what Jem says and she instead states, “...Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks,” (Lee). This quote goes along with the quote from The Outsiders like mashed potatoes and gravy. Jems different kind of folks are exactly like the social classes in The Outsiders. The way Jem says this is almost as if his kind of folks are better than the others. Scouts explanation of the different kind of folks is simple and correct. Scout took off all of the many labels on people and put everyone under one big label. The label of folks. Scout sees right through the color of their skin, the amount of money to their name, the way they live, and every other distinction a person may have. The characters in these two novels did not live in the same time period, but if they did, they and everyone else in the world would have seen the same
S. E. Hinton speaks through Ponyboy in The Outsiders by saying, “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her …show more content…
Jem says, “There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the negroes,” (Lee). Scout refuses what Jem says and she instead states, “...Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks,” (Lee). This quote goes along with the quote from The Outsiders like mashed potatoes and gravy. Jems different kind of folks are exactly like the social classes in The Outsiders. The way Jem says this is almost as if his kind of folks are better than the others. Scouts explanation of the different kind of folks is simple and correct. Scout took off all of the many labels on people and put everyone under one big label. The label of folks. Scout sees right through the color of their skin, the amount of money to their name, the way they live, and every other distinction a person may have. The characters in these two novels did not live in the same time period, but if they did, they and everyone else in the world would have seen the same