At one point in everybody's life they have actively chosen to follow the crowd and do what everyone else is doing regardless of its moral context. That is the meaning behind blindness to prejudice. People do things just because it’s normal amongst their community. In author Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, many people who live in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama are racist towards African Americans. Many townspeople owned slaves that lived on the south side of Maycomb. Acts of racism in the town are a normal, everyday thing. There are many examples of blindness to prejudice throughout the novel like Mayella Ewell’s experience with Tom Robinson and Jem realizing how blind everyone really is to prejudice during the trial. The unjust persecution of Tom Robinson during his trial is proof of the issue that is blindness to prejudice. …show more content…
He is accused of rape by Bob and Mayella Ewell. During the trial Atticus Finch agrees to be Robinson's lawyer. The accusation was false and Mayella Ewell had kissed Tom butcher then realized, in the words of Atticus, “She did something that in our society is unspeakable.” Mayella could have potentially even been in love with Tom as he helped her with lots of things out of the kindness of his heart. As soon as she realized and her father saw her, she completely changed because what she was doing was not normal amongst the people of the town. She changed her story to try and save herself in the public view. She couldn’t live with the fact that she was doing something different from everyone else not realizing she was being racist because it was so