How can you judge a person without knowing them? Some people judge by looks, and others judge by how a person talks.CD In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a lot of stereotyping due to unimportant things such as skin color or socioeconomic status; however, some characters learn that appearance is not always important. Themes relating to lessons learned, family dynamics, and stereotypes play a very important part in To Kill A Mockingbird.
As life lessons are experienced, one becomes more mature. In my first quote, Atticus is talking to Scout about how she needs to control herself as people may taunt her because of what her dad is doing.CD Atticus says, “You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for …show more content…
After Christmas dinner, when Scout is talking to Francis about how Grandma is such a good cook, Francis mentions that he wants Grandma to teach him how to cook. Scout responds with,“‘Boys don’t cook.’ I giggled at the thought of Jem in an apron”(Lee 109). Scout is saying that because Francis is a boy, he can’t cook, and implying that all boys can’t cook.CX Aunt Alexandra and Scout are having a conversation about “Fine Folks”, but they having differing opinions about the topic.CD Scout says, “Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was”(Lee 173). Aunt Alexandra is stereotyping because she thinks that fine folks are people who have owned the same piece of land for a long time; but Scout has the right idea because she considers fine folks people who use their sense the proper way. Finally, during Atticus’ closing statement, he explains how people who testified thought that they would get their way. He uses the wording, “... in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-- the evil assumption-- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber”(Lee 273). Atticus knows this is not true, however, he uses it to show how the people that testified for Mr. Gilmer discriminated because they thought that because they were white, they could get their way over an African American man. Stereotypes represent premature judging in this novel and in real
As life lessons are experienced, one becomes more mature. In my first quote, Atticus is talking to Scout about how she needs to control herself as people may taunt her because of what her dad is doing.CD Atticus says, “You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for …show more content…
After Christmas dinner, when Scout is talking to Francis about how Grandma is such a good cook, Francis mentions that he wants Grandma to teach him how to cook. Scout responds with,“‘Boys don’t cook.’ I giggled at the thought of Jem in an apron”(Lee 109). Scout is saying that because Francis is a boy, he can’t cook, and implying that all boys can’t cook.CX Aunt Alexandra and Scout are having a conversation about “Fine Folks”, but they having differing opinions about the topic.CD Scout says, “Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was”(Lee 173). Aunt Alexandra is stereotyping because she thinks that fine folks are people who have owned the same piece of land for a long time; but Scout has the right idea because she considers fine folks people who use their sense the proper way. Finally, during Atticus’ closing statement, he explains how people who testified thought that they would get their way. He uses the wording, “... in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-- the evil assumption-- that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber”(Lee 273). Atticus knows this is not true, however, he uses it to show how the people that testified for Mr. Gilmer discriminated because they thought that because they were white, they could get their way over an African American man. Stereotypes represent premature judging in this novel and in real