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    Name: Teacher: Class: Date: Racial and Social Prejudice in To kill a Mockingbird Discrimination is a topic many authors have focused on for a long time. It has been the basis of many arguments‚ and has been around for thousands of years. Prejudice still currently affects our society today. In Harper Lee’s book‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ prejudice is evident in the form of social‚ and racial discrimination through the characters of Scout‚ Atticus‚ and Tom and some other characters in the novel.

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    ignorance‚ discrimination‚ cultural intolerance‚ judgement‚ or in To Kill a Mockingbird’s case: racism. Acts of marginalization‚ exclusion‚ and silence is evident all throughout the novel; of which is particularly seen towards the African-American community. Racism in the deep south extends far before our ancestors established means of discrimination in the 1930s‚ but shines ever so brightly during the Great Depression era. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ set in this time period of societal hierarchy‚ serves as a

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Reflection Written in the late 1950s to early 1960s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways reflects the state of its society. The Civil Rights Movement was occurring at the time‚ a fight for human freedom‚ extending the rights of full citizenship to individuals regardless of race‚ sex‚ or creed and the slowly emerging concept of equal rights for all. Although set in the 1930s‚ it has come to my attention that the book strongly mirrors it¡¯s context and was greatly influenced

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    and apply effort in the things I seek success in. Some characters of To Kill A Mockingbird weren’t enabled to make their own decisions due to their environment. Wether it be a family member‚ friend‚ authority figure‚ decision‚ or something you are given‚ it can impact your life and has the ability to change everything you do. The way parents act and teach affects their children more than anything. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Atticus displayed the lesson of fighting for what’s right by defending

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    novel To Kill a Mockingbird is written about two siblings‚ Jean Louise and Jeremy Finch. They live with their father Atticus‚ a respected lawyer. Living in a town called Macomb County‚ this family has endured many hardships. Despite the odds‚ they manage to maintain a very healthy relationship. In today’s society people people do not usually care about others‚ it is one for all instead of all for one. Lee writes about how having compassion can help create and strengthen bonds with others. To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Family in To Kill a Mockingbird There are three kinds of family in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Each family has their own rules and standards‚ they all are different than each others. These three are‚ the Ewells‚ the Cunninghams‚ and the Finches. Each one is different in its own way. The Ewells are the usual stereotype of a redneck family. When Atticus describes the family he says‚ “The Ewells have been the disgrace of Maycomb for 3 generations.” They live in what is considered a dump. Each

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    based on a personal opinions. In Webster’s New World Dictionary‚ the word “stereotype” is defined as “a way of thinking about a person‚ group‚ etc. that follows a fixed‚ common pattern‚ paying no attention to individual differences”. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” there are many examples of stereotyping between Whites and Negroes. In the book‚ Lulu‚ a fellow negro‚ says‚ “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here- they got their church‚ we got our’n. It is our church ain’t it‚ Miss Cal?”

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    the Civil Rights movement can be easily compared and contrasted‚ in spite of the time period being decades apart‚ grief towards the bigotry against African Americans is still as much as alike as it was before. Harper Lee’s well-known novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ displayed controversial themes of prejudice and segregation that occurred in the 1930s. The novel displays racial inequities still present today‚ these can be observable through occupations that are influenced through racial profiling‚ wrongful

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    To Kill A Mockingbird - An Essay On Justice In the secret courts of men’s hearts justice is a beast with no appearance. It morphs to serve a different cause‚ and it bites a different person each time. In the cases of Tom Robinson‚ Bob Ewell‚ and Arthur Radley in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ justice is applied differently each time. Tom Robinson doesn’t meet an equitable end‚ with a death sentence over his head from the start. Justice isn’t in his favor in the stained prejudiced

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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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