The Great Depression :: American History, Maycomb

It is a foggy window located in the soul by dint of gained experiences that sees prejudice. It does not only influence and revolute sight, rather affects thought and actions. Everyone is given the opportunity to look out the window, but not all can see beyond the fogginess. The fog may be a mixture of race, gender, beliefs or behaviours. The major themes in Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird relates plump for to presumptions and biases the rich rejecting the pitiable because of their economic level of life in the Great Depression, whites discriminating against blacks, and people gossiping innocents which result a weak foundation and an gauche relation among the Maycombs society causing undeveloped individuals to live in an unsafe environment. The Great Depression caused the poor to become poorer while the rich were not affected as much. Some of the rich, such as Aunt Alexandra, misunderstood people because of their economic life. Her different point of view is clearly displayed w hen she rejects Walter Cunningham, a poor boy, saying, ...theyre good folks. But theyre not our kind of folks (Lee 224). Aunt Alexandra, believing that the Cunninghams are beneath the Finches economic level, ignores Scouts aspect of friendship toward Walter disliking him because-he-is-trash (Lee 224). She is disregarding of the Cunninghams hard work to pay back Atticus in the only way they could (Lee 21). Aunt Alexandra results negatively on Walter making him dislike of being a Cunningham, on Scout by decreasing from her relations with her classmates and friends, and on Maycomb by developing an unsafe society for country folks to leave because they have to cover up with unnecessary factors like money to avoid the rich prejudices. Maycomb is known guilty for its racist atmosphere where blacks are lower than the whites. However, not all of the white fellowship discriminated black. For example, Atticus stands up for Tom Robinson regardless of Mrs. Duboses hurtful words saying Atti cus is no better than the n*ggers and trash he whole kit for (Lee 102) It is obvious that Atticus is one of the most reliable and honourable citizens of Maycomb. Mrs. Duboses evaluation on Atticus results negatively on other neighbours and clearly hurts Calpurnias feelings. An example of this racial prejudice is found Scouts words saying that Tom is just a Negro (Lee 199). Scouts words are evidences to the unsafe society for kids to develop. Another example is found while Aunt Alexandra is convincing Atticus to dismiss Calpurnia, although Atticus tells her that Calpurnias not leaving this kinsperson until she wants to (Lee 137).