Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature 211
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In which +John Green teaches you MORE about To Kill a Mockingbird. In this
installment, John teaches you about race, class, and gender in the American
south, as seen through the eyes of Scout and Harper Lee. John will talk
about how Scout learns about these aspects of the social order as she
interacts with the people of the town, learns from Calpurnia, watches the
trial of Tom Robinson, and endures the attack of Bob Ewell. You’ll also
learn a little bit about Demi Moore and Mila Kunis, and John will ask just
who is the Mockingbird, anyway? Not that he’ll answer that, but he’ll ask
it.
Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash Course Literature
211
“She’s also a woman so she has to navigate gender oppression” Really? She’s
oppressed by having to wear a dress to church? If not being able to wear
the other gender’s cloths is oppression then surely the boys are to an even
greater extent.
Also, the idea that gender doesn’t have key importance in Tom Robinson’s
story. Tom’s oppression comes both from both race and gender.
I found To Kill a Mockingbird to be a disgusting book of hypocrisy when I
read it in high school. It tries to tell a tale decrying racial oppression,
and then, at the same time and without any sense of irony, tells the tale
of Scout’s slow descent into accepting her place as a “lady”; into
accepting the gender oppression which she so defied at the start of the
story. And the book presents this as if it’s a good thing; as if she’s
maturing and coming to her senses. It was a torturous read, but it seems
like I’m the only one who makes this connection.
Sometimes it depresses me to be black because of how people automatically
perceive me I FEEL LIKE even if i’m not a nigger i’ll be a negro and I just
want to be black can’t I just live without labels eve that is a label. I
don’t want to be a minority or a majority I just want to feel like a HUMAN.
Look at this bias lib-tard piece of shit. He can’t make one video without
spewing his filth political views. Not a single attempt to being unbias.
A bad modern movie version: Amazing Spider-man 2.
wow my eight grade class just finish reading this book
Impressive to take a book about a man facing a false rape accusation and be
like, “It shows the struggle of women because she had to wear a dress to
church.”
Mila Kunis is old? She’s only thirty. Not only that, I’d never even heard
of her till a couple years ago. On the other hand, she *was* born in a
country which no longer exists.
John,
what books do you think a student should read before going to college? I’d
like to read them so i can be better prepared for college.
Kurt’s next! Yay!
Atticus is one of those people who are so genuinely understanding that you
wish you could meet him in person. He has this amazing ability to
empathize, and despite the fact that I admire that, it’s something that’s
really hard to achieve.
Also, Katniss is the Mockingjay, not Mockingbird. Although, considering the
fact that mockingjays were modeled off mockingbirds, and the fact that
mockingjays are basically half mockingbird, I suppose it could be one in
the same. >_<
I could have used this a week ago when I did my English exam partly on To
Kill a Mockingbird…
In this week’s +CrashCourse I talk about Race, Class, and Gender in To
Kill a Mockingbird: Race, Class, and Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird: Crash
Course Literature 211
I was under the impression that the ‘l’ in ‘folks’ was silent?
OMG, Google installed an option to further speed up videos to at least 2X
normal speed.
Crash Course has turned into Super Crash Course for those brave enough to
tread those waters.
Please do ROmeo and Juliet next
I would love a Crash Course on Fahrenheit 451.
Speaking of good vs bad movie adaptations of literature: John, what did
you think of the 2013 version of “The Great Gatsby” with DiCaprio and
Maguire?
Eat your cheetos with a tooth pick.
The part about a black double-identity puzzles me. Wouldn’t poor speech and
an anti-intellectual stance only reinforce negative views on a black
community? I can’t see why they’d be in favour of it
dubois: NOT DU-BOYS, BUT DUBWA
look it up john green! ur raping foreign names again
Wow, this is ironic. I just did an essay in English about who the
mockingbird in “To Kill a Mockingbird” was.
one of my favorite books! thanks John!
You say that literature lets us see through other people’s eyes, but as I
see it, it lets us see through the eyes of one person, the author. You are
taking a journey through one person’s head and this is my critique of
fiction and why most of my reading is non-fiction.