Social Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

this is quoted to Plutarch and pertains to societies as well. This idea of grouping people based on their wealth plays a key role in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by, Harper Lee. It recounts the story of two preteens, Jem and Scout, growing up in a prejudice old southern town during the great depression. They have become accustomed to the towns habits, like the normally honorable work of the Cunninghams as well as the dreadful deeds of the Ewells. The children have role models in their lives like Aunt Alexandra as well as Calpurnia, a black nanny like figure. Atticus, their father, is presented with the most strenuous and thorny case of his life representing Thom Robinson, a black man, accused of rape by a white woman. All in all the narrative consists of the difficulties of these kids as they struggle through the idea of discrimination, inequality, as well as an array of other issues. Economic class affects the events in the novel by dominating characters judgement, dividing the community, and preserving as well as sustaining blemishes through generations.

Four economic classes dominate the population, this affects the towns entire way of life. When it comes down to it, the book really grasps the entire idea of the class system. This forces Jem and Scout to grow up with a mindset of prejudice towards others. They hold onto this notion that it is not proper to bend the system. Jem observes this and sums it up when the text reads, “There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind, like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunningham's out in the woods, the kind like the Ewell's down at the dump, and the Negroes.” (__) These classes clench almost all aspects of the town. Even someone as young and un...

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...Are the Ewells (Bob Ewell, in particular) villainized at least partly because of their social/financial status? Such prejudice often goes unnoticed or unremarked on because it is so ingrained in the characters that even they do not recognize it.” The truth the economic classes have been locked into Maycomb for a long time before Scout and Jem began growing up.

The caste system of Maycomb played apart in basically all aspects of the book, the economic system affects how people think, segregates the community, and has dominated Maycomb for several generations. All four classes are impacted and when it comes down to it the book revolved around the caste system. When the story is looked at thoroughly the class system really provoked most of the complication. This dilemma is still present in modern times and still needs to be addressed and taken care of more thoroughly.