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What are the social issues in To Kill a Mockingbird?

For an assignment in school i have to list the social issues found in To Kill a Mockingbird, and also provide a specific example of criticism from the novel. If you could all just list a few it would be greatly appreciated i read it already and i liked it but i have to read it for a second year in my new school. im overloaded with homework and can't handle rereading 6 chapters that i've already read along with my pounds of other work. someone help me i'm sure we've all been in the homework overload predicament.

Public Comments

1. I have an Idea. Read the book. Don't get others to do it for you! That's an Amazing book and you should be happy you get to read it! A lot of schools are taking it out because it has bad language.
2. Social issues: Racism,Prejudice, Sexism, Sexual abuse, Poverty, Mental illness, alcoholism, orphan children
3. agree with above answer plus "mixed children" and the town's obsession with family name/background (e.g. ewells looked down upon)
4. Race is certainly a big theme in To Kill A Mockingbird and a monumental social issue. The history of race in the novel, as in America, is based on drawing distinctions solely for the sake of discrimination. From Shmoop