Post by lindadate on Oct 29, 2015 22:48:21 GMT
How do To Kill a Mockingbird and The Help explore the theme of inequality? Discuss.
> In both texts, those of a lower and poorer social class and treated with little respect and kindness.
- Celia Foote is looked down on because she comes from Sugarditch, a lower class area.
- The Ewells are one of the lowest families on the social. People have no respect for them, especially Mr Ewell "Get back to your dump"
- In The Help, those of a higher class can get away with more things. Miss Leafolt can smack her child in public and not change her nappy and no one minds. "Baby Girl been in that bed since eight o’clock last night, a course she need changing! Miss Leefolt try to sit in twelve hours worth a bathroom mess without getting up!"
> Racism
- Black people never win a legal case, even if they are not guilty and a white person is. "When it's a white person's word against a black man's, the white man always wins."
- The only job available to negroe women in The Help is to be a maid, and even then they get paid very poorly. "Ninety-five cents an hour comes to a hundred seventy-two dollars ever month"
- Mr Johnson pretends to be a drunk so that the people of Maycomb would be able to make some sense of his behavior, as he is married to a black woman and his children are half black. This lifestyle is completely against the laws of the society. "Secretly Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live the way I do because I want to."
> Gender equality
- Women in Alabama aren't allowed to do jury duty but men are. "I guess it's to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom's. Besides," Atticus grinned, "I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried—the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions."
- Women are beaten in both texts by male figures. Minny is beaten by Leroy, "Leroy gone kill me." Mayella is beaten by her father, "So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take."
- Skeeter going to college and working is seen as 'abnormal' while Stuart has rain checked her for months because of work responsibilities and nobody thinks anything of it. "Are you…do you…find men attractive? Are you having unnatural thoughts about…[…] girls or women? […] Because it says in this article there's a cure, a special root tea —"
> In both texts, those of a lower and poorer social class and treated with little respect and kindness.
- Celia Foote is looked down on because she comes from Sugarditch, a lower class area.
- The Ewells are one of the lowest families on the social. People have no respect for them, especially Mr Ewell "Get back to your dump"
- In The Help, those of a higher class can get away with more things. Miss Leafolt can smack her child in public and not change her nappy and no one minds. "Baby Girl been in that bed since eight o’clock last night, a course she need changing! Miss Leefolt try to sit in twelve hours worth a bathroom mess without getting up!"
> Racism
- Black people never win a legal case, even if they are not guilty and a white person is. "When it's a white person's word against a black man's, the white man always wins."
- The only job available to negroe women in The Help is to be a maid, and even then they get paid very poorly. "Ninety-five cents an hour comes to a hundred seventy-two dollars ever month"
- Mr Johnson pretends to be a drunk so that the people of Maycomb would be able to make some sense of his behavior, as he is married to a black woman and his children are half black. This lifestyle is completely against the laws of the society. "Secretly Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live the way I do because I want to."
> Gender equality
- Women in Alabama aren't allowed to do jury duty but men are. "I guess it's to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom's. Besides," Atticus grinned, "I doubt if we'd ever get a complete case tried—the ladies'd be interrupting to ask questions."
- Women are beaten in both texts by male figures. Minny is beaten by Leroy, "Leroy gone kill me." Mayella is beaten by her father, "So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take."
- Skeeter going to college and working is seen as 'abnormal' while Stuart has rain checked her for months because of work responsibilities and nobody thinks anything of it. "Are you…do you…find men attractive? Are you having unnatural thoughts about…[…] girls or women? […] Because it says in this article there's a cure, a special root tea —"