Single Stories Today

I believe that most of the single stories that have been in To Kill a Mockingbird, still exist today, just not on as high of a scale. Especially for women and African Americans, society has become a lot more accepting and see them as equal. For example, when Jem is saying that Scout acts like a girl, in which he says it several times, he meant that girls are lesser. Today, though, I believe that it is used much less often. In addition, the phrase was made common when society viewed women as lesser people, and it is difficult to get rid of an old phrase. Today, people are just accustomed to using the phrase as a way to say you are bad at something, but are not trying to insult girls by saying it. In racism, that was also a common practice back then the no longer exist for a majority of people, with a few left who still do it. In most groups that were discriminated against, now it usually comes up in jokes. In the article Canadian youth must be properly educated on how racism persists in Canada, the author says that "Being racist is something you laugh about in the bar or at the gas station, like mocking the Oilers. At the very least, most people know that racial slurs are wrong, but it makes little sense why racism would be a major theme in a university course." A lot of people know just assume that racism isn't a big deal anymore and just joke about it. However, this can be taken the wrong way, or the people can get used to the jokes and eventually decide that being racist is ok, which could lead to resurgence of racism as a whole. Younger children can also overhear this and think this is ok. So while discrimination is not as big of a deal now, how we act about it now could affect how we view it in the future. #no racist jokes

Single Story message

Harper Lee is trying to show how incorrect single stories can be. In several occasions, she has used other characters' single stories on some of the main characters to show how wrong they can be. One example was on pg. 61 where Miss Maudie created a single story about Scout's father's ability to parent. There have also been the points in which scout is judging the other kids based on their families, which would probably be offensive and does not necessarily apply to them. #Being in a small town where everyone knows everyone might not be so great

Jem's Single Story

Jem creates a single story about Boo Radley, a man who never comes out of his house. He created his single story first off of him getting in trouble with the law when he was young. His father grounded him to the house and 15 years later, he stabbed his father. Jem thought of Boo as a horrible, gruesome person who he could toy around with. Thus, it was turned into a game to try to lure him in, which made him look like a joke. #they have never even seen him

About Me

I'm Ben, I'm 15 and I am a Freshman at Westerville Central. I have been living in my current house in Westerville for 10 years now. I have one sister and 2 cats, one boy and one girl. At Central, I am in the Marching Band, Young Republicans Club, and Super Smash Bros Club. For our unit on the book To Kill a Mockingbird, my goals are to always be caught up with the reading and put in extra time reviewing the chapters. I depending on how we are reading this, I can make a schedule and divide the pages evenly per day, and leave room for days when I don't have enough time.
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