Miss Gates In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel to Kill A Mockingbird,Harper Lee creates characters with moral compasses pointing north pushing for a future that is is better for everyone. She also created characters who teared down every step taken toward progressiveness. They all affect the future of Maycomb County for the better or worse. Miss Gates for example teaches the future of Maycomb a contradicting lesson on democracy and the meaning of it all. Atticus fearlessly fights prejudice in public. Maycomb as whole is a mixture of point of views,containing white supremacists and those who embrace change with open arms. In the end they all shape the future of Maycomb and as the motto says “ from mud to the stars “ ( 345 ).

Maycomb county is a predominantly white town in which most of the
In one of her lessons she discuss the events going on in Germany and gets so mad about the events occurring,showing a rather hypocritical stance on prejudice as Scout explains to Jem,”Jem,how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be so ugly to folks right at home-” (331).Scout, a nine year old girl is capable of understanding that people tend to have pre judgments on people based on their skin tone. Miss Gates doesn’t think it’s wrong to treat the Jewish this way wrong because they are human beings and deserving of being treated as such,no,it’s because although jewish people are middle eastern they are white-passing people. When talking to Miss Stephanie Crawford ,Scout overhears her,”I heard her say it’s time somebody taught em’ a lesson,they were gettin’ way above themselves,an’ the next thing they think they can do is marry us” (331 ). She doesn’t believe in equal rights for those of a different skin tone from hers,and this thinking has been seeded in every child she has taught,shaping the future of Maycomb