To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Lens Essay

Holdem Wright Ms. Peirson English 10c 15 May, 2024 To Kill A Mockingbird literary lense essay In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, the book explores through a marxist lens, using Scout, the main character who is a young girl in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama who is torn between curtain issues. She is surrounded by sexism, racism and inequality. In TKAM Scout is raised in a white family with very morally accepting views on racism and everything that was just written down, she grew up to think that no one is better than anyone else. In the book Atikus Finch, Scout's father took a role as a public defender to help convicts in times of hardship and circumstances in the community. Through the book, Aticus is defending a black man by the name …show more content…
Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know— doesn’t say much about them, does it?” (Lee 159). Despite Aticus’s personal feelings towards Mr. Cunningham and his mob, he keeps his statements formal and still treats Mr. Cunningham as an equal. Aticus knows it isn't entirely his fault for the mob and the way he acted, as everyone around him was behaving the same way. Humans inherently want to fit in and find groups of people that they can fit in with and be accepted so they can maybe feel more powerful. All and all, Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates a very broad perspective on issues that can even be seen today. Power amongst people is a huge thing and has been seen throughout history. We see it in slavery back in the 1800’s. We see it with kingdoms in the medieval times. We even see it now with governments in other countries. Everyone wants power over people in any way. In the book it is shown between the people of Maycomb with mobs trying to kill Tom Robinson but even when it shows that it also tells us the negative like when Scout was getting in fights Atticus had to tell her it's not worth it and it affects others in different

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