What Is The Theme Of Education In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that tells us about a young child's life and how she sees the world and how she chooses to deal with it. One issue that Scout, the young protagonist, has a hard time understanding is the difference between white and blacks. Scout has a hard time understanding this because she raised to believe everyone is equal and no race is superior compared to another, but the people in her town believe otherwise.

Prior to the Civil War only whites could attend school and blacks could not due to slavery. This made it hard for blacks to learn and this was one cause that lead whites to believe they are superior to blacks. As time passed on the to Civil War blacks gradually were able to go to school. Even though they were able to go to school they were still behind the whites that were around the same age group as them. Also blacks were not allowed to go to the same school as whites, this was because of segregation. After the Civil War all blacks were now allowed to go to school and receive an education. The law said they were equal in education as long as there was segregation. As the Civil War ended and the law saying education was equal,tension began to rise between the blacks and the whites. Whites and blacks in the South may begin to live next to each other, or in the same neighborhood, but the views on education as one
Scout, the main character, is a young girl who does not understand why people in her town treat blacks different that they treat whites. Many people in her town hate black people and treat them different, one example of racism is how the whites referred to blacks. They call them very mean words and always accuse them of doing stuff, when in reality most of the times the blacks are innocent. One way we could correct blacks getting treated equal to the whites is giving them a same opportunity as whites in