How Does Miss Maudie Use Racial Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee gives insight to society's prejudice against age, gender and especially race and how it impacts communities and individuals in a destructive way. Lee establishes how women did not have the same rights as men when she writes, ""For one thing, Miss Maudie can't serve on a jury because she is a woman-" "You mean women in Alabama can't-?" I was indignant." The use of aposiopesis is effective in conveying how shocked Scout felt after hearing this discriminating rule. The hyphen also displays the way Scout precipitously interrupted Atticus in disbelief. This reveals how Scout knew if Miss Maudie could be on the jury, Tom might have been ruled fairly. It proves that gender prejudice made the difference

This highlight's how prevalent and ordinary racist discrimination was. The way Scout felt it was wrong to be talking to Mr Raymond also indicates how he was omitted from the community. Racial prejudice divides the town and allows people to be excluded and discriminated against. When Miss Maudie says, "You are too young to understand it." she is discriminating against Scout's age. The use of this cliché illustrates how common it was for adults to not explain things to children because they assumed they would not understand. It also displays how age discrimination was something that happened regularly. Scout often has different views on topics and if she was included in more conversations people within the community could see things from a different vantage point. In this way To Kill A Mockingbird outlines how gender, age and racial prejudice impacts individuals and communities in a damaging

Noonuccal outlines how we prejudicially alienate one another and fight over skin tone. Nonuccal mentions, "I'm for all humankind, not colour gibes, I'm international, never mind tribes," which uses regular rhyme scheme to create a sense of certainty and finality to each line which communicates her message in a determined tone. This emphasises the unjust way we quarrel against one another based on skin colour. The rhyme scheme is consistent and goes on to manifest our differences in life but how that does not mean we should fight about it. Noonuccal illustrates how we are prejudiced towards others because of race when she writes, "black tribe, yellow tribe, red white or brown" and "Black, white or brown race, yellow race or red,". Noonuccal plays with the convention of anaphora by slightly changing the phrases to outline that while we different in some ways, we are mostly the same and should not be separated in terms of race. Just as the second quote mirrors the first one we also reflect each other. Although we look slightly different on the outside, we are "all one race" hence the title. Noonuccal writes, "I'm international, never mind place; I'm for humanity, all one race,". This summarises her whole poem by using a combination of first person and inclusive language bringing together all her points about how we are all the