To_Kill_A_Mockingnird

To Kill A Mockingnird Lisa Law TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is filled with universal themes within society. Lee uses various techniques to explore the racial prejudice, human sufferings and the triumph of goodness over evil. 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 situation, they were still highly honourable as they “never took kill, mockingbird, prejudice, scout, human, racial, over, goodness, evil, triumph, society, one, lee, ewells, black, town, through, sufferings, negroes, lee’s, jem, case, atticus, within, took, step, robinson, race, poverty, out, mr, mockingbirds, mayella, maycomb, man, kill