Examples Of Powerlessness In To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Throughout history, race/gender/class equality have been huge problems for instance the Civil Rights movement in the 60’s, There was the Removal Act with Andrew jackson removing the Indians. There is still the occurring battle for equal rights for women because they still do not get equal pay as men, even though they might be doing the same job. In To Kill A Mockingbird there is this lady with the name of Mayella that’s treated just awful because she is a low class white american lady. People seem to believe that she is worth nothing. Mayella is powerless for various reasons because of her substantial low levels of the class and her gender and race is a huge setback in why she is powerless. Mayella does not have any power at all, according to the standards of class. For example, in the passage there was a piece of evidence that really stood out to me clearly saying that she is powerless and here it is: “Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand. Tom …show more content…
In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.” The previous piece of evidence shows that they knew the white man was guilty, but they let it slide and didn’t say anything about it and blamed it on the black man. Mayella is powerless because everyone is always putting her down and never gives her a chance because of her race and gender. During the three paragraph’s the subjects discussed were of how: gender,race and class affect one person’s life as it did to this girl named Mayella from the book we are reading called “To Kill a Mockingbird” It is a shame how life was back then and how people were treated based on gender, race and class knowing that those aren’t things one person can
Throughout history, race/gender/class equality have been huge problems for instance the Civil Rights movement in the 60’s, There was the Removal Act with Andrew jackson removing the Indians. There is still the occurring battle for equal rights for women because they still do not get equal pay as men, even though they might be doing the same job. In To Kill A Mockingbird there is this lady with the name of Mayella that’s treated just awful because she is a low class white american lady. People seem to believe that she is worth nothing. Mayella is powerless for various reasons because of her substantial low levels of the class and her gender and race is a huge setback in why she is powerless. Mayella does not have any power at all, according to the standards of class. For example, in the passage there was a piece of evidence that really stood out to me clearly saying that she is powerless and here it is: “Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand. Tom …show more content…
In November, in Greenwood, a grand jury declined to indict them for kidnapping.” The previous piece of evidence shows that they knew the white man was guilty, but they let it slide and didn’t say anything about it and blamed it on the black man. Mayella is powerless because everyone is always putting her down and never gives her a chance because of her race and gender. During the three paragraph’s the subjects discussed were of how: gender,race and class affect one person’s life as it did to this girl named Mayella from the book we are reading called “To Kill a Mockingbird” It is a shame how life was back then and how people were treated based on gender, race and class knowing that those aren’t things one person can