Theme Of Jeopardy In To Kill A Mockingbird

Generational Jeopardy?
Lachlan Hall delves into the identity of the human race and the effects of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, focusing on how these topics have transformed throughout the generations.
Is ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ still relevant? ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ was Harper Lee’s greatest achievement. It was released in 1960 and follows a young girl growing up in a southern, minuscule town called Maycomb in the 1930s. It very much resembled the southern traits and attitudes towards different races.
Identity refers to who or what a person or thing is. Identity is shaped and determined by society, history, media and texts.

An expert on Harper Lee, Dean Thomas DiPiero states that, “Despite the fact that this is a novel about kids
Women can get an education and have the same jobs as men but are underpaid in some aspects.

Again, like the hope given to the coloured people in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ the recent vote in Australia to make gay marriage legal would give hope to that community displaying its extreme relevance even after almost 60 years. Both the novel and its message social change still have an impact and influence after so many decades.
A character who didn’t comply to the norms of the time is Dolphus Raymond. As he would make a facade of himself and associate himself with the coloured people which was unacceptable because he didn’t believe in the white people’s morals.
He would inspire young people of this generation to be themselves. Fitting in is a main problem of today’s youth which most likely results in changing themselves to fit into society’s overwhelming shadow. This is why Raymond is a light in the dark in the novel.

Many young people would relate to Scout and Jem because they were being forced by Aunt Alexandra to grow up and change themselves into socially acceptable men and women so they would fit in to