Society’s Devils “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”(Lee, 260). This quote comes from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. The quote is spoken by Scout, a six-year-old girl who lives in Maycomb, Alabama, a town swarmed with prejudiced inhabitants during the Great Depression. Prejudice is discrimination based upon false belief, false statements, and inexperience. An example would be discrimination towards Muslims, based upon the idea that they are nothing but bomb-carrying terrorists. However, many people who are prejudiced don’t mean to be but are mentally forced to be, and this is because their society is built on prejudiced people, and so they are more than often prejudiced because of the mental impact their …show more content…
Society has the power to mentally change people’s views and principles. Society has its corrupt influence on people by promoting the impression of being prejudiced, such as parents on their children. Naturally, children at such a young age absorb almost everything their parents teach them, and sadly, being prejudiced is an essential lesson in many societies. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, the main character, is a little girl in the town of Maycomb, Alabama where prejudices live in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Throughout the novel, Scout and her brother, Jem, experience awful acts of injustice, such as the killing of an innocent man because the townspeople were prejudiced. Most of the people who voted for the man’s death, however, aren’t completely at fault. To illustrate, in Chapter 26, Scout is at school in her classroom. The class was Current Events, a class where