To_Kill_A_Mocking_Bird

To Kill A Mocking Bird To Kill a Mockingbird Essay 1. In this novel, life was based on stereotyping. Without stereotyping, jobs, homes and people would be totally different. Women and Blacks would be allowed to be lawyers, judges, and jury-people. Stereotyping is used in a family’s reputation, race, sex, and living standards. A family’s reputation was very important to many people in this book. When Tom was in jail before the trial, his wife had a hard time finding work because no one wanting to have anything to do with a rapist’s family. Aunt Alexandra based her judgment of a lot of things on a family’s reputation. She also denied anything that put down the Finch name like the ancestral streak. Race was the biggest factor of stereotyping. A black man’s word was nothing against a white man’s word. There wasn’t much of a chance, even when a respectable black man like Tom Robinson went against a piece of white trash like Bob Ewell. Jem mentioned before the trial that nobody like the mixed folks. White people didn’t want them because they were part black. Black people didn’t want them either because they were part kill, mocking, bird, people, raising, stereotyping, standards, one, didn’t, book, black, based, time, much, atticus, white, reputation, philosophies, living, life, learned, jem, blacks, way, very, tom, think, things, respect, part, lot, family’s, because, anything, against, wrong, wouldn’t, word