To Kill a Mocking Bird
Is to Kill a Mockinging Bird and the issues it explores relevant to today? Why or why not?
The novel issues are still relevant to today. In modern 21 century racism, prejudice, racial issues and stereotype and narrow minded society are still present in today’s society. We can take for example when President Obama was first elected in 2009. There were numerous racial issues surrounding him; him being America first black President. Many narrow minded Americans did not want to welcome a change (which is similar to the Southerners in to kill a Mockingbird) whereby they wanted to stick by the ‘tradition’ of American only having white President since the 1780s.
The second issue that Mockingbird explores that is still relevant to today is the Existence of Social Inequality.
Fifty years after Mockingbird was written social inequality still exist. Society may not favour communism but one would like to think everyone should have the same opportunity to healthcare, education, right & freedom of speech etc. Many may argue that in modern America Social Inequality may depend on what government is in control. However this shows that today we individuals have more of say how many social inequality we receive in comparison to Mockingbird era where Ethnic minorities had no choice.
The issues within ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, how Lee shows its relation to Civil Rights movements & growing up white in the South in the 1930s.
I believe the issues addressed in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" are the evils of racial intolerance, bigotry and prejudice in the depression-era American South. But there are more positive messages as well. Finch represents the small minority of Southerners who are not of the intolerant and bigoted mind set. Atticus is a wise and gentle small-town Alabama lawyer of 1932, raising his motherless offspring and defending a Black man who is falsely accused of rape. His decision to defend Robinson is based upon his principles and is made despite knowing that
The novel issues are still relevant to today. In modern 21 century racism, prejudice, racial issues and stereotype and narrow minded society are still present in today’s society. We can take for example when President Obama was first elected in 2009. There were numerous racial issues surrounding him; him being America first black President. Many narrow minded Americans did not want to welcome a change (which is similar to the Southerners in to kill a Mockingbird) whereby they wanted to stick by the ‘tradition’ of American only having white President since the 1780s.
The second issue that Mockingbird explores that is still relevant to today is the Existence of Social Inequality.
Fifty years after Mockingbird was written social inequality still exist. Society may not favour communism but one would like to think everyone should have the same opportunity to healthcare, education, right & freedom of speech etc. Many may argue that in modern America Social Inequality may depend on what government is in control. However this shows that today we individuals have more of say how many social inequality we receive in comparison to Mockingbird era where Ethnic minorities had no choice.
The issues within ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, how Lee shows its relation to Civil Rights movements & growing up white in the South in the 1930s.
I believe the issues addressed in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" are the evils of racial intolerance, bigotry and prejudice in the depression-era American South. But there are more positive messages as well. Finch represents the small minority of Southerners who are not of the intolerant and bigoted mind set. Atticus is a wise and gentle small-town Alabama lawyer of 1932, raising his motherless offspring and defending a Black man who is falsely accused of rape. His decision to defend Robinson is based upon his principles and is made despite knowing that