To Kill A Mockingbird Belonging Analysis

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Experiences that entire areas encounter amplifies the division and tension between social groups, and correspondingly strengthens an individuals sense of belonging within this.

In a state of economic distress, the unemployed youth of Kiev are clustered together as ‘the older generation[s are] to traumatised by the turmoil, the city has become a vacuum (. . .) a new generation of young people are creating their own style identity.’ the voice over a metaphor, as the young discover connections through their own escape in CXEMA.

Paralleling the Ukrainian youths break from society’s political struggles, the citizens of Maycomb are all held under the weight of the Great Depression, the harsh poverty increasing racial discrimination between the Caucasian and African American populations. Belonging is still rooted in the ‘negro’ community, despite the highest level of disrespect, the church symbolises this segregation, in the juxtaposition ‘Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays, and white men gambled in it on Wednesdays.’, one of the most crucial places of cultural and spiritual wellbeing is used for sin, reflecting the manner in which the African American’s are treated throughout their lives.

Their experience of total discrimination and isolation draws the individual’s closer, revealed in the measures Reverend Sykes takes within the church to raise funds
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. .) without catching Maycomb’s usual disease’ referring to mindless racial discrimination that taints the all interactions within the community. Despite Scout loosing much of her acceptance in Maycomb, her connection with like-minded people (including Atticus, Jem, Dill and Miss Maudie) is enhanced, mirroring the belonging Kiev’s youth gain through their paralleling circumstances and change in