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Storytelling has been giving the reader questions to contemplate since its beginning, making us question the way society has been built and the values of which it is built upon - whether these rules should be followed so blindly and just how right they are. Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones was published in 2009 as a coming of age/gothic fiction novel. Jasper Jones has challenged my acceptance of these rules which are thought to keep us equal and in order, yet they have ingrained racism and inequality deep into our society. Following my in-depth study of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones and the era, it was set in (the 1960s). Known as the time Australia was becoming more progressive. I have realised that due to the way people think and act as a collective after being raised on bigoted views and ideologies. That these rules our society is built on have ingrained racism and inequality instead of trying to remove it. Scapegoating has been in our society for a long time, especially towards minorities this wrongful act is displayed in jasper jones. Craig Silvey positions the modern audience to interpret the racist remarks and scapegoating of Jasper Jones as an insight into the unrightful blame of minorities in our society today and our grandfathered-in ideology. It shows that Corrigan scapegoats Jasper Jones and allows it to happen because he is aboriginal. This makes the audience think about how we act negatively as a collective. Using a semantic field while describing Jasper as “a Thief, a Liar, a Thug, a Truant. He’s lazy and unreliable. ” Silvey pushes the audience to understand that jasper is deeply hated. Although he did not actually do anything he's aboriginal and nobody cares what will happen to him. This outlines the inequality in our society, showing we will wrongfully blame people if it makes our lives easier. The ruthless scapegoating of this aboriginal child is a clear example of the way our society wrongfully blames easy targets like minorities for things they did not do. Old ideologies in our society that have been passed down have created deep-rooted racism instead of helping remove it. Silvey makes this clear to the reader by using the bullying of Jeffery Lu as an example. Jeffery despite being an exceptional cricket player is tormented by the team. They push him around and say a multitude of racist things like “fuck off cong” and go as far as to hit his ball away until eventually “it’s a lost ball”, All because Jeffery is Vietnamese. Back in the 1960s when Jasper Jones was set, the Vietnam war was going on. This made every Vietnamese person an enemy in a lot of people's eyes, even a 12-year-old boy. This collective hate for Vietnam in not only the 1960s but in our modern world has made a racist country and a racist society. The audience quickly catches on about this all happening because of Jefferys's race. The modern audience knows it's wrong and the people in Corrigan do too, but they do it anyway. Society lets them because long ago the Vietnamese used to be our enemies in a war. they will always be treated differently. This urges the audience to think about how we treat minorities today and how unequal things still are. The purpose of this is to make the modern audience realise what our old ideologies have done to our society. To understand that just because we follow them does not mean they are right. As a society, some discriminative actions and mindsets have become the norm due to being done repeatedly over the years. Overall society tolerates them because we all expect someone else to deal with it. For example, An Lu is beaten by a few men in the town being called things like “red rat” repetitively. An was spit on and beat to the ground because the men like many others in our society saw Vietnamese people as less than human. Because society tolerates it these men didn't get any legal punishment. Society displays this idea of people collectively tolerating things like racism and thinking someone else will handle it. That stands out to the audience when they read about what happened to An, It leaves the reader with a bitter taste in their mouth that we let this type of thing happen in our world. Just because something bad doesn't directly affect us doesn't mean we can just let it happen. Society has been allowing racism and inequality to slide because it's more convenient than dealing with it. Throughout this essay, I have argued that Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones outlines the racism and inequality in our society. Silvey showed those things through the scapegoating of Jasper Jones. the inequality and toleration through Jeffery and An Lu. Silvey challenges the idea that following society's old views and values is always the right thing. He proposes the idea that doing so can lead to a lot of bad things happening like Jeffery being racially abused. But the novel catalyses people to question society's rules and not follow them so blindly anymore. Perhaps the point of this novel is to make the audience protest about these real-world problems and deep-rooted discrimination. To possibly make a better future for the generations to come.