To Kill A Mockingnird

Lee constructed the novel as a flashback through the narrator, Jean Scout Finch, who as an adult recollects her childhood memories. Scout’s dominating naïve voice analyzes the situations she was confronted as a child. During her transition of her innocent unbiased perspective to her mature grown-up attitude, the readers explore the racism, human suffering and triumph of goodness over evil through her discoveries.

Set in the 1930s Great Depression in the “tired Maycomb”, poverty was the subject to many human’s sufferings. The Finches however were well-off in comparison to the rest of the society ranking at the top of Maycomb’s social hierarchy. Jem divided the town into four different types of folks “the ordinary folks like us, Cunninghams, Ewells and the Negroes.”

The Cunninghams clearly exemplifies the sufferings of poverty within society. The characterization of Walter Cunningham and his non existence lunch and shoes portrays his low class status. Despite their sit

Lee’s formation of the mysterious character, Boo Radley is to deeply emphasis on human suffering through the means of suspense. As the children become increasingly intrigued and ‘fascinated” of the Radleys, Boo became the fears, imaginations and superstitions of the children’s conscience. Boo was also considered as a mockingbird as he did no harm. Instead he left presents for the children and rescued them from Bob Ewell, but yet has been injured by the evil of mankind. Mockingbirds in the same way are symbols of purity destroyed by the evil as “mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”. As Scout interpreted Atticus motivation and advice “you never really never understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around it”, she finally saw Boo as a human being.

uation, they were still highly honourable as they “never took anything they can’t pay back. They don’t have much, but they get along it.”

Through dialogue exchanged between Atticus and Scout the readers are confided with his inner conflict in accepting Tom Robinson’s case. Although he was “simply defending a Negro”, he was aware of the town’s possession in racial prejudice and the consequences in “fighting our friends”. He acknowledged that “if I didn’t, I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” So he continued his motivation in proving Robinson innocent.

However, his action led the Finches to be caught in “Maycomb’s usual disease” evoking the town in hostility treatment. The inevitable case not only influenced his town prestige, but also result Jem and Scout to be the targets of abuse from other children, Atticus was insulted as a “nigger-lover” and degraded to be “no better than the niggers and trash he works for”.

The Negroes occupied the lowest class level of Maycomb. Despite Lee’s emphasis on their abundance of admirable qualities, their skin colour made them immediate outcasts and ranke

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