![]() ![]() Tom Robinson is falsely accused, wrongly convicted, jailed, and shot 17 times when he tries to escape. She is a victim of domestic violence, but she lies about rape, playing into the “women lie” narrative that has villainized Christine Blasey Ford and countless others. ![]() She is poor and abused, but she still knows how to leverage her whiteness, just as Amy Cooper did in Central Park. Mayella, a white woman, falsely accuses a Black man of rape, because she knows blaming him can save her from her reality. Characters, Then and NowĪll the central characters in Mockingbird, save maybe for the narrator herself, illustrate complicated narratives that connect to today’s injustices. Reading it with a 2020 lens, I cringed when I realized that for all the societal tensions Mockingbird surfaces, it doesn’t offer solutions and perhaps only reinforces narrow narratives that can actually be harmful to my students. I’ve usually pushed back against the canon, but I could get behind a story about a precocious young tomboy who helps her father fight against racial injustice.īut, as I read it once again with my freshman class this spring, I felt drastically different. Until recently, To Kill A Mockingbird was one of few classics I actually liked. 4 Keys to Starting an Education Blog This Summer.Teacher Branding 101:Teachers are The Experts.Practicing Self-Care to Avoid Teacher Burnout- An 8 Week Course.Is it Time to Kill Mockingbird and Embrace Mercy? - The Educators Room Close Search for:
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