How does Miss Gates explain why Hitler is able to treat Jews so poorly in Germany?
What irony is exposed in her explanation?
What is she forgetting or ignoring?
Why do you think Harper Lee chose to include this current events lesson in the novel?
What point was she making?

1. In her view, Jews were treated very poorly in Germany because Germany was in a Dictatorship

2.The irony is that Maycomb is every bit as steeped in prejudice as Nazi Germany. It's just that the town happens to be part of a democracy instead of a dictatorship, so no one's able to make a connection.

3.  Miss Gates' is forgetting  her nation's history as well as the widespread racial oppression that persists in Maycomb itself. There's no sense that Miss Gates is being disingenuous in her remarks; she clearly believes every word she says. It's just that she shares in the widespread indifference towards racial injustice that persists in 1930s America, especially in the Deep South. Miss Gates waxes eloquent about the appalling treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

And somehow she ignores what is happening right under her nose with the blatantly unjust treatment of Tom Robinson, hauled up before a court on a trumped-up charges.

4.Harper Lee chooses to include this current events lesson to show how the people of Maycomb are similar to the Germans who are persecuting the Jews by feeling superior to the blacks. However, they do not see the problem with their prejudice even though they are horrified by what Hitler is doing

5. The point Miss Gates Was that Jews are being Mistreated by the Nazi administration in Germany

Explanation: These questions are from the novel To kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

The story is told by the little six-year-old girl Jean Louise Finch nicknamed Scout. She is a rebellious girl who has tomboy tendencies. The storyline is based in Maycomb, a small town in Alabama in the 1930s where Scout lives with her elder brother Jem, and her father, Atticus, who is widowed

the theme of universality in town is expressed in ensuring all citizens upon the occurrence of a relevant social circumstance (sickness, unemployment, old age, employment injury, having many children, maternity, disability, loss of the breadwinner, etc.)