Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about how racism is so ingrained into the way people think,act, how ingrained it is into our laws and government, and how society has villainized African americans. You can see this throughout time, it doesn't just stop in the 1930s, and TKAM brings a lot of this to light. The theme of the novel is to show how prejudice has been ingrained into society and the things that need to be done to get rid of this prejudice.

There are many examples of prejudice throughout the books, but segregation is definitely a theme that is prevalent. discrimination that is so rooted in society, and the social difference between the two races in the 1930s. The book was written in the 1960s and segregation was still

Bbut, there was one part of the book that really showed this. Iit was when Jjem was talking to Aatticus and Jem, a child, was even commenting on the injustice system and how the racial bias is unfair ¨It was jem's turn to cry his face was streaked with angry tears…it ain't right atticus said jem no son it ain't right.¨(242) This was a significant moment in the book and shows how strong the discrimination was. It was so strong a child could understand that if you see this multiple times throughout the book, jem is gaining a better understanding of the world around him. this is something future generations shouldn't have to worry about. You can see a lot of this is present day young children gaining an understanding of social prejudice. My mother has faced a lot of discrimination especially as a child even from a young age she had a conscious understanding of the discrimination she

Tand this is important to highlight in the book you would think that if people who were black and white fell and love and had a child, people would become more accepting but, it was even harder. People still were not accepted and this gives light to and shows the racial bias and discrimination and that no one wanted to associate themselves with anyone who was black at all ¨jem I asked what's a mixed child half white,half colored you've seen em scout you know that red kinky headed one that delivers for the drugstore he's half white theory real sad sad how come They don't belong anywhere colored folks won't have me because there half white white folks won't have them because there colored¨(183) Even seeing people of mixed races did not bring light to the subject of racial prejudice to people but actually speared people more. You can still see this discrimination against mixed people today. For example, when i was a child, a kid in my neighborhood gave me rope burns on the back of my heels and said to me ¨dance monkey dance." This is a personal experience of mine that shows how this discrimination is still prevalent and how it's important to the theme of the