To Kill A Mockingbird highlights racism prejudices injustice and socioeconomic status
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... It highlights racism, prejudice, injustice, socioeconomic status, ignorance and tolerance. ... In, To Kill a Mockingbird, the socioeconomic status of the white community is depicted with the Finch family as the upper-class. ... The Ewells portray the lowest rung on the socioeconomic ladder. ... I think that it reflects how overwhelmingly oppressive racism was that even black people referred to themselves with a derogatory, hateful word. ... Even people and children who occupy lower rungs on the socioeconomic rungs are happy now to look down their noses or say nasty things to them because Atticus was selected to defend Tom Robins and, astoundingly, planed to put all his efforts into giving Tom a fair trial. ... In the seventy years since the fictional scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird took place small steps in the improvement of the race relations might have taken place, but it’s not even close to enough.