Themes In To Kill A Mockingbird

There are many birds in the world, but there is a special bird in this book that symbolizes more than just a bird. That bird is a mockingbird. The book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” has many themes that set the mood in the story. Scout is just a little girl and doesn't know why race is such a big factor in her society. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” it shows themes such as “Race, Justice and Judgement, as well as Morality and Ethics.” First of all, Scout and Jem don’t know why people discriminated because of their race, so they both react differently than others when they hear racism going on around them. In the story “To KIll a Mockingbird,” it states,”she never kissed a grown man before an' she might as well kiss a nigger," (Lee, Chapter 19). Scout and Jem are going through a rough time where society was bad with all the racism and not only that but they lived during the time period of the Great Depression, so they didn't have any money to live off of, but neither did anybody else. They didn’t even understand why people of a different skin color than theirs/race got treated differently. Second of all, a lot of justice and judgement goes on in the book. In the story “To Kill a Mockingbird,” it states, “You going' to court this morning?" asked Jem...I am not.
In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” it states,"There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results," (Lee, 5.44). Miss Maudie's talking about Nathan Radley here, but also about his fellow foot-washing Baptists who think she's going to the underworld for making her garden pretty. Miss Maudie's no party girl, but she still strikes out at those who think that all pleasure is bad, except for the pleasure they obviously take in judging their neighbors as