This was a rough time when one race, class, or gender had the power to treat the other like they were worth nothing. The book titled To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows this idea. The siblings Jem and Scout Finch live in Maycomb County, where everybody knows each other. They are exposed to the rules of the outside world where there are unfair judgments everywhere. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many examples of how prejudice harms the individual and community. One example of prejudice in the book is racism, prejudice against a race. One day, Jem, Dill, and Scout were going out to watch the Tom Robinson trial in the Maycomb County courthouse. They then see Mr. Dolphus Raymond sitting with the Black folks. He was drinking Cola from out of a …show more content…
Jem, Scout, and Dill were playing a game about the Radley family. They were acting out what happens to them and Atticus doesn’t like it. Jem then saves himself, Scout, and Dill by talking about how it wasn’t about the Radleys. Scout then tells the reader, “...Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things and that’s why people hated them so … I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while on pain of being called a girl …” (Lee 41-42). When the author brings up “...Jem told me I was being a girl,” it means that Jem thinks Scout is acting like a girl. Acting like a girl in this case means imagining things, which Jem didn’t like. Scout had to listen to Jem all the time because he was the only person apart from Atticus who she thinks is her role model. Jem wanted Scout to behave less like a girl which Scout listened to so she had to keep “aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while on a pain of being called a girl.” This shows how Scout respects Jem because she listened to him. This quote shows sexism because Jem didn’t want Scout to play along with him just because she acts like a