Racism and Morality in To Kill a Mockingbird

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee in 1960. The novel takes place in the fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. It is told from the perspective of Miss Jean Louise Finch, a young, white girl who lives with her well-respected father, Atticus, her brother, Jem, and their black cook, Calpurnia. The novel explores the true nature of humanity through the coexistence of good and evil as Jean Louise develops her understanding of the world through…

There is a point where children start to question the society they grow up in. In Harper Lee's coming of age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the children seem more knowledgeable than many adults on how society should work. Scout and Jem, the children of Atticus Finch, are often influenced by many of the people in Maycomb. Almost everyone in maycomb has their own views and almost all of these people have prejudice perspectives. There are only a few who don't believe that one person is better based…

Prejudism in To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch states in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his viewpoint...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” There is so much wisdom and truth in this quote, words that everyone should live by. Unfortunately, people do not always abide by this, judging and discriminating others often without trying to understand another person’s experience. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper…

for many years. For many, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is deemed a literary classic because it contains these traits. Many people continue to relate to this timeless novel. To Kill a Mockingbird is a literary classic because it allows the reader to learn more about another culture, stands the test of time, and has a lasting effect on the reader. Getting to know another culture is an element typically found in classic literature, including To Kill a Mockingbird. First Rose…

Published in 1960 by acclaimed author Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird obtained immediate success and received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, an accolade for accomplishments made in the arts one year after the novel had been published. Told through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird follows the story of young children who grow up in the 1930s within the Southern United States who undergo inconceivable circumstances. As the story takes place over a three year…

To Kill a Mockingbird In the 1930s, many Southern towns remained tainted by the bloodshed of ancestors and were still largely removed from past Reconstruction efforts to modify deeply ingrained social dynamics. The Great Depression only served to weather such towns, acting as an economic earthquake that toppled the belief systems of many people, testing both their integrity and clarity of vision. Maycomb County is no such exception—a setting depicted by Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird,…

During the 1930’s in southern America the African Americans were still being mistreated by the opposite race. Numerous African Americans were thrown in jail with no evidence in doing the crime. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” focuses on the prejudice surrounding the trial of Tom Robinson who was an innocent black man accused of raping and horrendously beating a white woman. Similar situations comparable to this trial were very common during the 1930’s due to the Jim Crow Laws being strongly…

lives. However, what makes one person 's right, another person 's wrong? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by author Harper Lee, Atticus Finch and his two children are put in the spotlight when Atticus is appointed as Tom Robinson’s attorney. Tom, a black man, is accused of raping and beating Mayella, a white woman, but the accusation is made by her abusive drunk father, Bob Ewell. This novel exhibits morality as a theme. Not only is the novel an outstanding classic, but it portrays how one…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, everyone is prejudice, from racism all the way to social class. Harper Lee introduces prejudice in a whole new way that we have never seen or heard of before. Prejudice is defined as “a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.” It also means “harm or injury that results from some action or judgment.” Most people in this world are prejudice because we are always judging people by the things they wear or the stuff they do. In To Kill a…

To kill a mockingbird Harper lee’s book, to kill a mocking bird, is a classic story which represents morals and the fight against prejudice and discrimination. Although the setting of the book took place in the 1930 's, the release of the novel could not have come at a more significant time. Published in the 1960, I feel that to kill a mockingbird was heavily influenced by the ongoing societal shift of standards and perceptions. Change was escalating quickly, people fought to change basically…