Gender Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird
Have you ever seen someone judge someone else because they didn’t fit their ideal image of them? Harper Lee’s Novel ,To Kill a Mockingbird, tells the story of young Scout Finch a tomboy who gets into fights, likes to shoot guns, and doesn’t like the idea of being feminine. Scout likes wearing pants instead of skirts, hanging around boys instead of girls, and shooting instead of cooking. Even though just about everyone is looking down on her for being different she still does her own thing. Scout and Atticus’s choice not to follow gender stereotypes makes the reader consider how people tend to ridicule those who stray from what they consider to be “normal”. First, while scout is at her uncle's house for Christmas her aunt berates her for not