Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel “To Kill a Mocking Bird”, there is a variety amount of complications and situations going around. The novel shows how prejudice and racism is such a huge problem. There are so many different ways that it is portrayed and shows how many of the characters deal with this situation. However, there are three characters whom do not show prejudice or racism throughout the book. Atticus Finch, Scout, and Tom Robinson are three characters that do not show prejudice. One of the first characters that does not show prejudice is a well-known character named Atticus Finch. His penetrating intelligence, calm wisdom, and his man behavior, makes him a non-prejudice man. Atticus is well respected by the poor and community. Atticus is a very admirable man. Unfortunately, he himself cannot stop the prejudice of the community. There are strong quotes in this novel that can demonstrate that. As in shown in the novel, …show more content…

She is a very rare little girl. She is unusually intelligent and unusually confident and she is not afraid to fight a boy. Scout is always worried about the evil and the bad that is going on around in the community. In terms of her social identity, she is unusual for being a tomboy in the prim and proper southern world of Maycomb. In the beginning of the novel Scout is an innocent, good hearted, five your old child who has no idea nor experience of the evil of the world. Then, later on in the novel, Scout has her first witness of racial prejudice. Scout emerges that from the contact with her consequences and optimism intact whether she will be bruised or destroyed like Boo Radley or Tom Robinson. Shown in the novel Scout expresses herself as not being prejudice. “Gone was the terror in my mind of stale whiskey and barnyard smells, of sleepy eyed sullen men, of a husky voice calling in the night, “Mr. Finch? They gone?” Our nightmare had gone with day light, everything will come out all right. (Chapter 17, Pg.