Examples Of Ageism In To Kill A Mockingbird

Ageism represents idiocy by allowing yourself to be obvious because of one’s age.

Ageism is shown in both novel by Harper Lee and the article by Scott Wooldridge about millennial’s by stating that because of how young you’re more likely to be less intelligent and have almost to no experience compared to older people therefore making them seem more superior.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Lee use’s ageism as if to illustrate the characters view point. To demonstrate when Jem mention to Scout "It's different with grown folks, we---" (Lee 184). Jem shows that he felt superior to Scout by a 4 year age difference which he thought it made him more Intelligent in his mind then his sister based on how he talked to Scout. On the other hand when Scout said "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness. He was much older than the parents of our school contemporaries..." (Lee 118). This portrays why

For an example “The common theme is a fear or a reluctance to hire people under 30, because they are unpredictable, and, ‘they don’t know how to work,’” says Cam Marston (Wooldridge). In the same way this goes along with older people seemly more intelligent, Reliable instead of collage kids which briefly explains why it’s hard to find a job in that sense. Additionally labeling helps discriminate millennia’s especially if from older employees example “Wilkie notes that it’s common for older workers to see younger workers as a threat, and take the easy way out by labeling them as somehow different” (Wooldridge). Hence the reason the older won’t like the younger because of the fear being replaced so they start shaming millennia’s. This is important because ageism is seriously a huge common stereotype in a sense people might judge you on because they feel