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A 6 page paper which examines how the differences between males and female are outlined throughout the course of the novel. No additional sources are used.
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To Kill a Mockingbird, the battle of the sexes in the American South was every bit as socially destructive as the racial divisions which had historically segregated communities and citizens
alike. The vivid picture Miss Lee painted of this slice of small town life (which was based, in part, on her own childhood in Monroeville, Alabama) reveals a place
where time had virtually stood still and attitudes that were popular during the Civil War were still engraved in stone. The South may have fallen, but its patriarchal society
remained intact at least in Maycomb County. Males and females were not only differentiated in terms of gender but also by social expectations. As depicted in the novel,
men were lords and masters of their domain, actively pursuing their interests while women passively maintained home and hearth and were expected to do as they were told, without protest
or question. It had been that way in Maycomb for so many years, nobody seemed to question the inequities of the gender structure; the citizens just accepted it with
a shrug and a kind of ambivalent resignation. To Kill a Mockingbird was a first-person narrative, told by an adult Jean Louise "Scout" Finch as she reflected on her Depression-childhood.
It is Scouts father, respected local attorney Atticus Finch, who dared to go against popular opinion to provide a formidable defense for field hand and accused rapist, Tom Robinson.
Although males reigned supreme in Maycomb, this only applied to white males. Black males, on the other hand, occupied the lowest rung on the social ladder, even lower
than the poor girls who were known as "white trash" because they committed the unladylike sin of dispensing their sexual favors freely. As for Scout, she has yet to
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