The novel To Kill A Mockingbird tells us many different things about our past, present, and future. Three main ideas in the novel that affect us in the past, present, and future are prejudice, poverty, and childhood. Prejudice is when someone discriminates against different races, minorities, or other groups of people. In the novel this takes the form of racism, because most of the people in Maycomb don't like African Americans, which is a prejudice, and this example teaches us that people in the past us to have prejudices against certain people. Another prejudice is that women should be treated differently than men. These prejudices still exist today, but they are weaker in power. In the future, I think people will still be judging others, but I think it will be less of a prejudice then what it is now. There are a couple examples in the novel where people have prejudices. One example is when Miss Maudie says to Jem, "Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his collard patch." (Lee 54) Mr. Radley didn't actually know who it was in the collard patch, but the people assumed it was an African American because most white people were prejudice against African Americans. That's how prejudice was, is, and will be in the future. Poverty is being poor and not being able to afford good things. Poverty was a big factor back in the past in the time period of this novel because it took place during the Great Depression. The Great Depression affected everyone and there is a big example of this in the novel. In the novel Atticus says to Scout, " Mr. Cunningham has no money so he pays me with food because he is a farmer." (Lee 21) This means that most farmers didn't have money and back then farming was a big part of people's lives. Now the economy isn't as bad as during the Great Depression, and I hope that in the future the economy will be better and will stay that way longer. Childhood is the experiences that a person has where they are a child that they can look back on when they're teenagers or adults and remember those experiences. Childhood in the past was more about spending times with other kids and playing games with them. Now, childhood is more about technology than friends. An example of how childhood was in the past in the book was when it said, "When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident." (Lee 3) Childhood in the future will probably consist of even more technology than today. Those are the reasons how prejudice, poverty, and childhood were in the past, present, and future.
The novel To Kill A Mockingbird tells us many different things about our past, present, and future. Three main ideas in the novel that affect us in the past, present, and future are prejudice, poverty, and childhood. Prejudice is when someone discriminates against different races, minorities, or other groups of people. In the novel this takes the form of racism, because most of the people in Maycomb don't like African Americans, which is a prejudice, and this example teaches us that people in the past us to have prejudices against certain people. Another prejudice is that women should be treated differently than men. These prejudices still exist today, but they are weaker in power. In the future, I think people will still be judging others, but I think it will be less of a prejudice then what it is now. There are a couple examples in the novel where people have prejudices. One example is when Miss Maudie says to Jem, "Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his collard patch." (Lee 54) Mr. Radley didn't actually know who it was in the collard patch, but the people assumed it was an African American because most white people were prejudice against African Americans. That's how prejudice was, is, and will be in the future.
Poverty is being poor and not being able to afford good things. Poverty was a big factor back in the past in the time period of this novel because it took place during the Great Depression. The Great Depression affected everyone and there is a big example of this in the novel. In the novel Atticus says to Scout, " Mr. Cunningham has no money so he pays me with food because he is a farmer." (Lee 21) This means that most farmers didn't have money and back then farming was a big part of people's lives. Now the economy isn't as bad as during the Great Depression, and I hope that in the future the economy will be better and will stay that way longer.
Childhood is the experiences that a person has where they are a child that they can look back on when they're teenagers or adults and remember those experiences. Childhood in the past was more about spending times with other kids and playing games with them. Now, childhood is more about technology than friends. An example of how childhood was in the past in the book was when it said, "When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident." (Lee 3) Childhood in the future will probably consist of even more technology than today. Those are the reasons how prejudice, poverty, and childhood were in the past, present, and future.