Examples Of Sexism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Racism, Social Status, and Sexism In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows prejudice through racism, social status, and sexism throughout the book. Lee provides many examples throughout the book. She narrates the book through a young girl's eyes so that the reader can see how all of this looks to the younger people in this world and how they understand it. The way the plot is viewed by the reader is different from how younger and older people view it. In To Kill a Mockingbird there is a vast amount of racism. For instance, there is the court system and how if an African-American is proven innocent, the jury still rules them guilty for no reason. Atticus explains how the court system dealt with things then: “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve

Scout tells Miss.Caroline, “..he’s a Cunningham.” (Lee 22). Because she does not know anything about the families and if they have money or not. If someone lives in a small town everyone pretty much knows about each other. Like Everyone except the teacher knows about the Cunninghams and how they have no money or the Ewells and how they only go on the first day of school. Jem claims that they're only 4 kinds of people in the world for example, he states “There’s four kind of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes.” (Lee 258). Most towns probably have those families that everyone knows about and their ways. But there is more than four kind of people than the ordinary ones, the ones in the woods, the ones in the dump, and the Negroes. They just do not know much outside of their little town of Maycomb. Especially in small towns, everyone knows each other and how they live and gossip can spread around