Prejudice is perceived opinion that isn’t based a upon actual fact. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there are a lot of examples of prejudice towards black people because it was around that time that African Americans were finally receiving the same rights legally as that of a white man, but the white man thought that this was preposterous. However, throughout the story we see plenty of prejudices against other types of people. For instance, there are prejudices against, Boo Radley, women, and finally white people that believe the blacks are equal to the whites. These are the three types of prejudices that I will be discussing throughout my essay. Even though the majority of prejudices in the story were towards black people, there are major points that Harper Lee makes that help us to understand the troubles that people faced at this period of time. …show more content…
Boo was a man that had been locked up inside his home for many years and nobody had really seen him in a very long time and led to some people’s suspicions. Throughout the book Boo is mentioned as a wild crazy man because that was what he was as a child. It all started one night when Boo and some of his friends were doings things they weren’t suppose to and they got into big trouble. Boo’s father got very upset toward Boo’s actions and kept Him trapped inside his home.
Boo being away from the town of Maycomb led people to make up crazy stories about Boo to tell the young kids that don’t know any better. Some of the stories were that Boo, “dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch…”(Lee 16) killed people, and crazy nonsense like that because they didn’t know Boo. On the contrary, Boo is a very nice person that ends up saving two kids lives in the story. This is an example of prejudice because people were making assumptions before they even got a chance to get to know who Boo really