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Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Sharma
Mrs.Cangialosi
English 10 E
1 March 2015
Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Anywhere and at anytime prejudice can and has affected all groups of people no matter what who it is. Specifically, in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudice roamed around Maycomb County like a ghost during the 1930's. The inequality between different type of people was just a way of life in the South at this time and Scout, the main character of this novel goes through the novel witnessing the unfairness that happens in her world. Scout grew up with these preconceptions built into her and that by the end of the book she matures from these perceived notions about the people around her. As Scout goes through the novel many forms of prejudice …show more content…

.For example in this part of the story, "I'll tell you why...Because—he—is—trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, picking up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. You're enough of a problem to your father as it is." ( Lee 225). The quote listed above shows how Aunt Alexandra feels about the people who are not as privileged as her. From …show more content…

Through this excerpt, Jem never talks back to Mrs.Dubose as she continues to say nasty slurs at Jem and shows how bad the oppressor are to the oppressed as Jem never did anything wrong to Mrs.Dubose to deserve these horrible slurs about him and his father. Ultimately, the division of social class, sexism, and racial discrimination were major forms of prejudice seen throughout Maycomb County. The people of Maycomb had the usual disease as Atticus, Scout's father calls it. That the disease is prejudice as it is shown through many examples of Maycomb during this time period. But, the assumptions that the people make are often false and lack of understanding. The chain of misunderstanding will continue happening unless a different perception is

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys that prejudice divides communities and that persecution of innocent people is evil; furthermore; these two minor themes reinforce the major thematic idea that a simple assumption can divide people. When Tom Robinson is put on trial for supposedly raped Mayella Ewell, the racism in Maycomb surfaces and creates conflict. In the novel, a stranger says, “You know what we want,” ‘another man said.’ “Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch.”(172). Some drunken men want to harm Tom Robinson for the wrong that he did.

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