The Hypocrisy of Humanity Depicted in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbir

Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird, has many stories from Scouts little town in Alabama that teaches the reader the good and mediocre sides of the mankind being. When all these come together, the result is this fantastic novel. One of the stories that stand out is the one when Mrs. Gates and Cecil Jacobs have a conversation in the classroom. They gurgle about Adolph Hitler and the malicious things he did to the Jewish pot. Mrs. Gates tries to tell her students that what he did was wrong in a very firm tone of voice. At this sharpen in the story, the reader feels anger for everything the Nazis did. However, the main portend of this passage is to make the reader realize how two-faced Mrs. Gates is. In this novel, Harper Lee implies that earth should be less hypocritical. When Cecil Jacobs makes his presentation about Adolph Hitler, Mrs. Gates comments about it. She teaches the children in her classroom that what this man did was very wrong since he killed many Jews just becaus e he did not like them. Nevertheless, the reader finds this very paradoxical for the reason that she does not have respect for black-colored-people. Mrs. Gates does not seem to understand the bad modelling that she is providing to the children she is teaching to. Her hypocrisy does not help to fulfill her role as teacher to teach and provide the skills and principles children will have to use later in life. The author of this novel has given the reader this story to symbolize the hypocrisy that one finds in todays society, to show that sometimes and most of the time, the human beings talk a lot but do not look at their own actions or execute what they are teaching.Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird shows so many characteristics of todays society. Among thes... ...ould be more honest and less hypocritical. An individual who is a great lesson of this is Al Gore, the Oscar-Winner for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. He tells audiences the way they should live and how they shoul d manage their life-styles to help save the environment mean while he is go in style and waists twelve times more electric energy compared to an average family in a year. Harper Lee has used the narrative point of view, characterization and irony to develop a more dramatic effect of hypocrisy between Mrs. Gates and black-colored-people. It is very unfortunate that there are people like Mrs. Gates and Mr. Al Gore in todays world. For this reason, every individual should strive to be better as a soulfulness to make their community a better place to live in and to provide an appropriate example to those who will live in it in the conterminous generations.