Jem Finch Stereotypes

Have you ever been discriminated against because of the way you appear to others? Have you ever had to demonstrate moral courage because of the difference in your appearance? I know that I have had to do both based on stereotypes. For one, I am a “WOMAN” then on top of that I am an african american woman with naturally curly, short, “nappy” hair, I am “physically structured different than others”, I am an AFRICAN AMERICAN TEEN who is constantly under a microscope being picked apart because of my race, all due to a handful of individuals. A few stereotypes that I have heard were “every black person is soooo obnoxious”, “all they do is yell, fight and kill each other, and listen to rap music all day long”, “not one of them are smart, they’re all dumb and shouldn’t even have an education” All of this has to do with the theme of moral courage because in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the author Harper Lee sets the story in the time period of the Great Depression. The genre of this novel is a Bildungsroman, a novel dealing with one person’s younger years or spiritual education, the main characters are Jem Finch, Jean “Scout” Louise Finch, Atticus Finch, Boo
The literary element plot develops the theme of moral courage without the plot you cannot create a story. The literary element characterization helps support the theme of moral courage because without characters what is the point of a story? Moral courage can be related to real life. It happens everyday, people stand up for themselves and in what they believes is right. A bystander shows moral courage when they step in to save a person from getting bullied or jumped in a fight. They show moral courage because they could have been just like any other person and just kept on walking but they stopped and stood up for a person and they stood up for what was right when no one else