Racial Issues In To Kill A Mockingbird
From a very young age, I have always held a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong. Being able to sense when something throws off my moral compass is something that I pride myself on, which is how I relate deeply with Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. In Watchman, Scout is now in her twenties, and trying to wrap her head around the rapidly changing times of the 1950s, when the entire country is on the brink of major social change on the racial front. Traveling from progressive New York City to her childhood home of Maycomb, Alabama, only deepens her confusion on racial issues. Scout is forced to formulate her own opinions when discovering the deepening troubles concerning race in her hometown…
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I have felt and seen the effects it can have upon youth of color. I hold these issues close, especially with our current state of racial affairs: police brutality, mass shootings, questionable laws being passed, and voter identification. These issues should not be issues, but they are, and they need to be addressed, not dismissed and shot down at every attempt. Change cannot come about when others are not willing to listen. Starting at the age of nine(?), Scout made it clear she followed no one. She stopped a lynching from happening by asking hard questions unknowingly. She took a complex situation and made it understandable, and found empathy within hate filled people. Later in life, Scout begins to question the morals of her father, Atticus, in the wake of finding him a part of a group wanting ti stop the civil rights movement. Scout is in tune with her moral compass, and acts upon it, confronting her father on his hypocritical actions. If I were to be thrusted into situations like these, I would act accordingly with Scout, and not hold myself back, regardless of my relationship with the person. Scout never blindly followed the crowd, and neither will I. We both frequently ask who, what, when, where and most importantly,
I have felt and seen the effects it can have upon youth of color. I hold these issues close, especially with our current state of racial affairs: police brutality, mass shootings, questionable laws being passed, and voter identification. These issues should not be issues, but they are, and they need to be addressed, not dismissed and shot down at every attempt. Change cannot come about when others are not willing to listen. Starting at the age of nine(?), Scout made it clear she followed no one. She stopped a lynching from happening by asking hard questions unknowingly. She took a complex situation and made it understandable, and found empathy within hate filled people. Later in life, Scout begins to question the morals of her father, Atticus, in the wake of finding him a part of a group wanting ti stop the civil rights movement. Scout is in tune with her moral compass, and acts upon it, confronting her father on his hypocritical actions. If I were to be thrusted into situations like these, I would act accordingly with Scout, and not hold myself back, regardless of my relationship with the person. Scout never blindly followed the crowd, and neither will I. We both frequently ask who, what, when, where and most importantly,