What Are Some Examples Of Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird shows the good and evil inside people. Everyone starts their life off with a clean slate and as time passes on it’s marked up by the things you do. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee it illustrates the effects of your race towards the community in a negative aspect. As it is now 2017 a lot of people are asking why we are still reading this book, before reading it did say that we read it because it's in the curriculum, but now after reading the book I’d say that it shows how much alike our world is to the book yet how we still strive for major differences and social improvements. To Kill a Mockingbird shares many examples of discrimination and stereotypes that formed around others during the 30’s. Black people were looked down upon for everything, although the equal rights
Some people may have a negative opinion on the book, but I feel as if it has a huge impact on the life of students while reading it, it shows that not all book have the cliché happy ending. That the guy with the bad reputation is actually the hero in the end. Living in a small town things spread fast and standing out wasn’t looked upon as a good thing, it was always better to agree or keep quite. Although the book is told from a perspective of a young white girl it expresses the issues the black people have but evidently it how’s the evil within most whites. If To Kill a Mockingbird had gotten banned from schools or taken out of the curriculum the next book that is close to the social issues and problems is “The Help”. The Help written by Kathryn Stockett is based in the Jackson Mississippi and focuses deeply on the effect of white slave owners with their irrational demands that couldn’t always be fulfilled. The book is still told from a perspective of a white female but she has a deep wanting to get them the rights and respect they