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Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The prejudice of maycomb

There is a kid in my high school who everyone thinks is a bit of an out cast and people think he is a bit crazy. A lot of the people judge him without even meeting him because of something that he did when he was younger. So a lot of people form a opinion of him before he meets him and have some prejudice against him. This connects to one of the characters in the book named Boo Radley he messed up when he was younger then rumors spread. Thanks to the rumors the whole town had a bad opinion of him before they ever even got a chance talk to him to get his perspective. So They formed a prejudice against him on rumors just like the kid in my school. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there is a theme of how prejudice hurt …show more content…

First of all Atticus lost all of the trust he gained with the whole town because he decided to defend Tom Robinson the reason he lost the respect is because tom robinson was a black man. So sense he was a black man everyone in the town discriminated against him and because atticus was actually trying to defend him in court they called him bad names and didn’t trust him to the same level they did before. “ ‘You can take that back boy’ this order given by me to Cecil Jacobs” (p74). Scout said this because Cecil was calling Atticus names so even the kids in the towns which got their information from their parents so the parents even were telling the kids not to trust atticus and call him names because of this case. Second is Mr.Raymond he has mixed kids so everyone in the town besides a few cast him out. One of the worst parts is he isn’t accepted anywhere blacks don’t want them because they’re white whites don’t want him because he is part black. So he fake drinks alcohol so that he won’t be judged as much by everyone. “‘Dill watch out’ I said Dill realised the straws and grinned ‘Scout it’s nothing but coca-cola’” (p200). He did convince everyone even the kids were convinced but it was just coke and he just did it so he wouldn’t be so harassed from the

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