Social Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird
In the United States of America, and globally, rising social inequality is very much a part of the average teenager’s life, whether they see someone who experiences it or are the victim of it. Also, literature can be a huge tool to have an impact on social inequality of an adolescent's life. Many problems, can be addressed by authors and even at times remedied with something as simple as a book.
Social inequality has been evident for many years as the growing inequality between poor and rich teens has only grown worse throughout countries in North America and Europe. America has the second largest population of people in poverty from a survey of 34 different developed countries.The poor should be made a priority of the government because …show more content…
This has been going on almost as long as America has been a nation, and has gone ever since. Research shows that adolescence may be the time when people form opinions about ethnic groups, and racism in everyday life has caused families and adolescents of color to have less openings for success. On top of that, it has been shown that teens who were exposed to racism with no support had higher health risks and more health problems than those who did. In the novel To kill a Mockingbird it shows how devastating racial bias can be to people when Tom Robinson was obviously innocent, but was sentenced to jail and …show more content…
When the novel became a bestseller, America read. The character Atticus, a single father with a young daughter and son, stood up for a man wrongfully accused of rape even though he knows the odds are stacked against him. A young girl who is trying to analyze and understand the world, and finding her own place in it. All of these plot elements supported the goal of the civil rights movement which was to bring equality to black Americans. Illustrating how unjust a segregated world was this novel was illustrating the inequality created by a racist society and the American public saw this play out in the simplicity of a young girl’s observations of watching racism in
Social inequality has been evident for many years as the growing inequality between poor and rich teens has only grown worse throughout countries in North America and Europe. America has the second largest population of people in poverty from a survey of 34 different developed countries.The poor should be made a priority of the government because …show more content…
This has been going on almost as long as America has been a nation, and has gone ever since. Research shows that adolescence may be the time when people form opinions about ethnic groups, and racism in everyday life has caused families and adolescents of color to have less openings for success. On top of that, it has been shown that teens who were exposed to racism with no support had higher health risks and more health problems than those who did. In the novel To kill a Mockingbird it shows how devastating racial bias can be to people when Tom Robinson was obviously innocent, but was sentenced to jail and …show more content…
When the novel became a bestseller, America read. The character Atticus, a single father with a young daughter and son, stood up for a man wrongfully accused of rape even though he knows the odds are stacked against him. A young girl who is trying to analyze and understand the world, and finding her own place in it. All of these plot elements supported the goal of the civil rights movement which was to bring equality to black Americans. Illustrating how unjust a segregated world was this novel was illustrating the inequality created by a racist society and the American public saw this play out in the simplicity of a young girl’s observations of watching racism in