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8/10/2019 Gender Debate FINAL

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GENDER DEBATE IN

TO KILL A MOCKINBIRD

Presenters: Carolina B.Peanha

Oumou Diallo


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Summary

Meanning of to be a TomboyNatureX NurtureCharacters and theirs roles

Aunt AlexandraJemCalpurniaScout

AtticusMiss Maudie

Similarity on LiteratureNowadays debatesReferences


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What it means to be aTomboy?

Tomboy : Another way to be a girl, whodresses and acts like a boy

Girly girl : A girl or woman who chooses todress and behave in an especially femininestyle (activities which are associated with thetraditional gender role of a girl).

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNorfwyrSJ0


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Characters and their roles

Con Tomboy Pro Tomboy-Aunt Alexandra-Jem

-Calpurnia

-Scout-Atticus

-Miss Maudie


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Aunt Alexandra

We decided that it would be best for you to havesome feminine influence. It wont be many years,before you become interested in clothes andboys(13.127)


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Jem

"Don't pay any attention to her, justhold your head high and be agentleman." (11.23)

Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time, shutyour trap or go home I declare to the Lord

you're gettin' more like a girl every day!" Withthat, I had no option but to join them. (6.24)


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Scout

I felt the starched walls of a pink cottonpenitentiary closing in on me, and for thesecond time in my life I thought of runningaway. Immediately. (14.24)

She [Calpurnia] seemed glad to see me whenI appeared in the kitchen, and by watching herI began to think was some skill involved inbeing a girl. (12.115 -116)


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Calpurnia

It isnot necessary to tell all you know. Its notladylike in the second place, folks dont like tohave somebody around knowing more thanthey do. (p.126).


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Atticus

Atticus accepts Scouts tomboyish behaviors,

He discourages fighting no matter the genderof his sons.He does not forbid fighting because it is anti-feminine but because Scout is far too old andtoo big for such childish things (9.82).Treating his children equally, Atticus alsodisapproves of Jems violent behaviors


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Miss Maudie

MissMaudie hated her house: time spentindoor was time wasted. She was a widow, achameleon lady who worked in her flowerbeds

in an old straw hat and mens coveralls, butafter her five oclock bath she would appear onthe porch and reign over the street inmagisterial beauty . (5. 42)


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Similarity in others Literatures

Little Women (Louisa M. Alcott, 1868, 1969)Jo March: is the tomboy prototype.Its bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys games andwork and manners! I cant get over my disappointment in notbeing a boy. And its worse than ever now, for Im dying to go and

fight with Papa. And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky oldwoman! Ramona Quimbys Age 8 (Beverly Clearly, 1981):

Ramona: independent, curious, tomboyish, always getting intotrouble,not understanding the elements of the adult world that wereclosed off to her, or the tiring etiquette of everyday life.

Harriet, The Spy (Louise Fitzhugh, 1996)Harriet M. Welsch : she wants to know more than anybody wantedto tell herHer career choice, of course, was spy.


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References

Hakala, L. (2010) Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-BendingBehaviors in Harper Lee'S To Kill A Mockingbird. Georgia SouthernUniversity.Lerner, G. (1986). The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

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