Racism
Maycomb is a society in which young children grow up to learn about prejudice, violence and hypocrisy not in school nor in the local library reading through books instead they learn to become one when they don't even no it is happening. This is viewed through out Harper's classic American tale, To Kill A Mocking Bird where preconceived categories have been created for different races and backgrounds. Such categories in a society only contribute to the ease in which preconceived and hypocritical judgments are made. These preconceived categories act like an unwritten law in Maycomb. This social order constructs a value of importance to the society and at the bottom of the ranks are the Negroes who have been brought up to think that they insignificant and worthless compared to the white folks. Even the strongest most hardworking pleasant Negro is not valued more then the arrogant, sponging and scummiest of all of the white folk in Maycomb.'You know something, Scout? I've got it all figured out, now. I've thought about it a lot lately and I've got it figured out. There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, t
She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. 'Does anybody have a definition?' 'Us,' somebody said. (Pg 43) This gives us perfect evidence to lawfully assume that no one knows a lot about Boo Radley a man trying to live a lonely life by himself, but is accused of outrages things. Another aspect of why Maycomb's society is so narrow-minded is fear, the fear of the unknown. 'What do you think it means, Jean Louise?' '"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!", I quoted. In the last chapter of this novel, Scout finally is acquainted with Boo. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. Also how people try to work out someone without speaking or even seeing that person. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards. (Pg 225)This advices us that it would be better to kiss a old Uncle, a family member then to kiss a strong young Negro. Over the generations there will be more like the Atticus' and the Miss Maudie's and in the generations to come they will face their fears. When it's clearly the furthest thing from it. Also they are monopolized into prejudice and narrow-minded ways. They will find out the unknown and forget the fears and democracy will turn out to be not just a word that they receive because their part of America but a regulation in their society. According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the living room cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook.
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