Weegy: One of the social issues in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Racial Discrimination. (More)

Weegy: The book is widely taught in schools in English-speaking countries with lessons that emphasize tolerance and decry prejudice. [ Despite its themes, To Kill a Mockingbird has been subject to campaigns for removal from public classrooms, often challenged for its use of racial epithets. Scholars also note the black characters in the novel are not fully explored, and some black readers receive it ambivalently, although it has an often profound effect on many white readers. ] (More)

Weegy: Allusions to legal issues in To Kill a Mockingbird, particularly in scenes outside of the courtroom, has drawn the attention from legal scholars. [ Claudia Durst Johnson writes that "a greater volume of critical readings has been amassed by two legal scholars in law journals than by all the literary scholars in literary journals".[72] The opening quote by the 19th-century essayist Charles Lamb reads: "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." Johnson notes that even in Scout and Jem's childhood world, compromises and treaties are struck with each other by spitting on one's palm and laws are discussed by Atticus and his children: is it right that Bob Ewell hunts and traps out of season? Many social codes are broken by people in symbolic courtrooms: Mr. Dolphus Raymond has been exiled by society for taking a black woman as his common-law wife and having interracial children; Mayella Ewell is beaten by her father in punishment for kissing Tom Robinson; by being turned into a non-person, Boo Radley receives a punishment far greater than any court could have given him.[55] Scout repeatedly breaks codes and laws and reacts to her punishment for them. For example, she refuses to wear frilly clothes, saying that Aunt Alexandra's "fanatical" attempts to place her in them made her feel "a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on [her]".[73] Johnson states, "[t]he novel is a study of how Jem and Scout begin to perceive the complexity of social codes and how the configuration of relationships dictated by or set off by those codes fails or nurtures the inhabitants of (their) small worlds ] (More)

Weegy: One character-related issue that may benefit you is that of single fatherhood. Atticus finds himself in an unusual position for the 1930s, as he is forced into the role of single father. [ What was it like for men of that era to have to rear children by themselves, when they were brought up or trained to be fathers and husbands during an era that was driven by the nuclear family unit? How did Atticus handle it, and did he succeed in the role? These questions should help you out as you do your character explorations. ] (More)

Weegy: The mood or tone in the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird is childlike, humorous, nostalgic, and innocent. As the novel progresses, the mood becomes increasingly dark, foreboding, and critical of society. User: why is the tone childlike in to kill a mockingbird Weegy: The general tone/mood of the book can be described as a passionate, emotional commentary on the injustice of racism, and the negative effects of ignorant judgment and the importance of forgiveness and understanding. (More)