3) Prejudice & Tolerance Social hierarchy of Maycomb Finches stand near the top Ignorant country farmers like the Cunninghams below White trash Ewells below the Cunninghams. Black community below even the Ewells‚ Rigid social divisions irrational and destructive. For example‚ Scout cannot understand why Aunt Alexandra refuses to let her consort with young Walter Cunningham. Lee uses the children’s perplexity at the unpleasant layering of Maycomb society to critique the role of class status
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In this book is that there is more to a person than the first thought that comes to your head. It comes up with Scout and Jem’s neighbor Mrs. Dubose‚ she is an older women that tends not not think of what she is saying to the kids. When Scout and Jem first met Mrs. Dubose she was always mean to them when they had walked by her house‚ but one time she said that Atticus was a “nigger lover” (page 136 Harper Lee) and Jem did not like that. Jem had gotten extremely upset and went into her yard and cut
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Georgia had Flannery O’Connor and Carson McCullers; Mississippi had William Faulkner and Eudora Welty; Louisiana inspired the major works of Kate Chopin and Tennessee Williams. Alabama had. . . Enlarge Image mocking Closemocking Associated Press Gregory Peck and Brock Peters in the 1962 film version of Harper Lee’s novel. . Well‚ while Zora Neale Hurston and Walker Percy were born in Alabama‚ those two great writers didn’t stick around my home state for long. And as for Harper Lee—Alabama
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had supposedly done. “"So Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford‚ a neighborhood scold‚ who said she knew the whole thing. According to Miss Stephanie‚ Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from ’The Maycomb Tribune’ to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by‚ Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg‚ pulled them out‚ wiped them on his pants‚ and resumed his activities."“ She was always seen getting into others business
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee All new material ©2009 Enotes.com Inc. or its Licensors. All Rights Reserved. No portion may be reproduced without permission in writing from the publisher. For complete copyright information please see the online version of this text at http://www.enotes.com/mockingbird Table of Contents Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................1
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‘Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself’. This statement made by Scout at the beginning of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows that Maycomb is a town in which the fear of change is rife. Lee’s choice of Maycomb as a setting‚ developed through narrative point of view and characterisation was vital to the text as it helped to develop the theme of prejudice and the consequences which result from the fixed attitudes of an insular town. One of the ways
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From the domestic violence of the Ewells‚ to the racism‚ the usual disease‚ of Maycomb‚ and finally the poverty that seems to affect every other person in‚ that town plagued with things that are still experienced today‚ Maycomb. Unlike most cases of domestic violence‚ which is the abuse of one intimate partner towards the other‚ Mayella’s case is slightly different. Mayella is the daughter of the abusive “partner” made into an intimate partner without her consent towards that decision. Domestic violence
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cannot help themselves. The kindness and selflessness that the character shows in the book demonstrates how Maycomb sees him as a person. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird she introduces the character of Atticus Finch and his Maycomb neighbors; his interactions with these others reveal common truths about respect‚ standing up for what is right‚ and integrity. The people throughout Maycomb see Atticus’s integrity and respect. Miss Maudie explains to scout and Jem how “Atticus Finch is the
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their cities . Another was when Europeans first came over to America‚ through this they prejudiced Native Americans forcing them to integrate into European culture. Social class is often directly related to racism. Tom Robinson and the Blacks in Maycomb were subjected to racist comments that were connected to their social standing. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” it shows that even though a person could be in the better part of society‚ they treat people under them with a racist demeanor. The
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throughout the world. Innocent people are being targeted for the color of their skin and their social class just like the residents of Maycomb‚Alabama during the 1930’s in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill A Mockingbird”. In this book‚ which is based on a white family and told through the eyes of the youngest child‚ “Scout Finch”‚ you learn about her residential city Maycomb‚ and its many issues with racism and social discrimination. You also learn about Scout’s father ‚ Atticus Finch‚ who is an attorney for
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