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Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird - Coggle Diagram
Themes in To Kill a Mockingbird
Courage and Bravery
Mrs Dubose - she has the courage to kick the morphine addiction as she's dying
Miss Maudie - house burning down, being optimistic
Arthur Radley saving the kids
Tom Robinson's testimony in court
Calpurnia - taking the Finch kids to the Black Church
Atticus's defence of Tom Robison
Education and Learning
Education seems to be a privilege that th porr can't afford
Outside of school, Scout learns and develops arguably more than in school as does Jem
Atticus cuts a deal with Scout to keep reading despite the teacher's advice
Innocence and Growing up
Scout is forced to grow up through:
The court case - her innocence is removed as she realises the extent of the town's prejudice.
Tom Robinson's conviction and death
Aunt Alexandra's influence
The exposure to women in scoiety
The novel being told through the eyes of a child
Jem grows up:
Emerging maturity
Sense of justice is challenged
The co-existence of good and evil within each individual
Womanhood and Female Identity
Aunt Alexandra and Miss Maudie - role models for Scout - Miss Maudie seems to all Scout to be herself and embody traits of femineity.
Provides a person for Scout to retreat to when Dill and Jem are doing 'boy stuff'
Calpurnia and Miss Maudie provide a mother figure
There seems to be an echo--chamber in the community of women that exacerbates the prejudice against the black community due to their grossiping.
The women are labelled as too emotional to be on the jury.
Justice and Social Class
In addition to racial prejudice, there is a lot of class prejudice in Maycomb, with different classes being treated differently by the community e.g. The Cunninghams, the Ewells vs. the women of the missionary society/Aunt Alexandra
Scout's view on 'trash' folks evolves as the novel goes on, with her understanding that just because someone is poor or excluded from society - doesn't make them 'trash'
Prejudice