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Prejudice in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
Prejudice is significant in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in several ways. Racism against black characters like Tom Robinson and the Finch's black housekeeper Calpurnia is prominent. Gender prejudice is also shown through the treatment of Scout and other female characters. Poverty adds further challenges, as the Ewell family faces due to their socioeconomic status. Overall, the novel illuminates the prejudices that existed in 1930s Alabama through the experiences of its characters.
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- 1. Prejudice To Kill aMockingbird
- 2. Show how prejudiceis significant in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. You must consider the context of the novel in your answer
- 3. • Knowledge ofthe text • Personal engagement with the task • Critical style AO1 AO4 • Understanding of the relationship between the text and context in which it was written
- 4. Step 1 –Interrogate the question • What kinds of prejudice are there in the novel? • Are some focused upon more than others? • How does that prejudice manifest? • What is significant about it? • What effect/impact does it have in the novel? • What effect/impact does it have on YOU?
- 6. Step 2 –Work chronologically through the text and identify source material that might be useful (make brief notes and jot down brief quotations)
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- 9. Racism – Maycomb ‘butaround here once you have a drop of Negro blood, that makes you all black.’ Jem – Chapter 16 – Page 178
- 10. Racism – Narrativevoice ‘I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman.’ Scout – Chapter 8 – Page 73
- 11. Racism – TomRobinson ‘I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own’ Atticus – Chapter 24 – Page 260
- 12. Racism - Calpurnia ‘Idon’t want anybody sayin’ I don’t look after my children’ Calpurnia – Chapter 12 – Page 130
- 13. Racism – MrsDubose ‘what has this world come to when a Finch goes against his raising?...Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!’ Mrs Dubose – Chapter 11 – Page 113
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- 15. Gender – Justice ‘MissMaudie can’t serve on a jury because she’s a woman’ Atticus– Chapter 23 – Page 244
- 16. Gender – Scoutas a ‘tomboy’ ‘I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl, it’s mortifyin’ Jem – Chapter 4 – Page 42
- 17. Gender – AuntAlexandra ‘We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.’ Atticus – Chapter 13 – Page 140
- 18. Gender – MayellaEwell ‘She had committed no crime, she had merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society…she is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance , but I cannot pity her: she is white’ Atticus– Chapter 20 – Page 224
- 19. Gender – MayellaEwell ‘I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!’ Mr Ewell – Chapter 17 – Page 190
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- 21. Poverty – opportunity ‘Helencan’t leave those children to work while Tom’s in jail…Nobody leaves here till we have ten dollars.’ Reverend Sykes– Chapter 12 – Page 135
- 22. Poverty – trash ‘ButI want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can’t I?...Because-he-is-trash.’ Scout/Aunt Alexandra– Chapter 23 – Page 248
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- 24. Neuro-diversity – BooRadley ‘Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.’ Scout/Aunt Alexandra– Chapter 1 – Page 9
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- 26. Democracy – Hitler ‘That’sthe difference between America and Germany. We are a democracy and Germany is a dictatorship…Over here, we don’t believe in persecuting anybody. Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.’ Miss Gates– Chapter 25 – Page 270
- 27. Democracy – Hitler ‘Jem,how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home - ?’ Miss Gates– Chapter 25 – Page 272
- 28. Exam Board ExaminerGuidance AO1
- 35. Step 3 –examine your notes and reflect on ways in which your knowledge on context might be seeded into your answer.
- 37. Context relevant tothis theme • Harper Lee’s biography • The Great Depression • The Civil Rights movement • Jim Crow Laws • The Scotsboro Boys • Emmet Till • The Suffragettes • Treatment of mental illness & neuro-diversity in 1930s
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- 40. Exam Board ExaminerGuidance AO1