How Does Harper Lee Influence Society

Society does this thing where it likes to really shape people and influence them, and Harper Lee was no exception to this. Also in the book, Scout and these two other characters(yet to be decided lol) are no exception to this either. Although it is hard to determine exactly why someone would write a book, we can make some pretty educated guesses on what led Lee to writing this wonderful book we have been blessed to be forced to read this quarter.- When Harper Lee was a young child racism was legit. This is probably one of the main reasons she wrote this book, to tell the world how horrible of a thing racism is. Based off of the information we got from The Best English Teacher™ and a quick Google search to refresh my memory, I’d say if it’s
So obviously though, society had to have shaped Scout as well. In the beginning of this book Scout was small and innocent child. But by the end, she had seen a lot of stuff and she was no longer small and innocent. Many things influenced Scout in this book, namely the Tom Robinson trial. Scout didn’t necessarily see all the evil and injustices in the world before the trial, or if she did she didn’t necessarily know what they meant. In the beginning of the book, Scout didn’t realize why it mattered if she didn’t act so feminine, but then when the sexist aunt came (although she wasn’t actually sexist, just brainwashed by society as everyone was at that time apparently) Scout learned that she should present herself more as a lady. But that has nothing to do with the trial. The trial influenced Scout because beforehand she couldn’t clearly see how unjust people were but after they had found Tom guilty, it was all clear to
Other than that though, society actually did influence Tom quite a bit. He was a kind man, a quiet man. He had a family, and from what I understand he lived a pretty decent life. Well, as decent as an African-American could in the south surrounded by racist white people who thought they were all better. Anyways, the point I am trying(and failing) to make is that Tom was just trying to live his life peacefully and then society ruined that by deciding to just side with the white people, even though they didn’t necessarily believe them they were racists so. Because of this, Tom’s peaceful life was quickly destroyed and then ended, which all in all is quite