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Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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During the 1930s in Alabama the Great Depression was terrible. There were no jobs, no money, and very little respect for others with different skin colors. In this novel you will find out what the Great Depression has done to a small community that contains groups of blacks and whites. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme of prejudice is shown by the social class, racism, and gender of a small group of people in a small town. The theme of prejudice is shown, using social class, throughout this book. This is shown by how the people in this community feel about people like the Ewells, Cunninghams, and the African Americans of the area. People like the Ewells are the step lower than the Cunninghams. The Ewells are a large group of people who …show more content…

Racism is a hatred towards someone of a different skin color, or ethnicity. Racism is present in this book in multiple ways. Some examples are the Tom Robinson case, the kids meeting Lola at Calpurnia’s church, and finally how people treat Dolphus Raymond. This part of the theme is shown during Tom’s case. Tom is an African American who apparently raped Mayella Ewell who is a white female. If Bob had not seen a black man with his daughter, he might not have beat her up and blamed it on Tom. Also during the court case all the African Americans sat in the balconies and all the whites sat down stairs, which means there was segregation. Finally, Tom was only found guilty because he was black. If he was white, he would have been found innocent. Another way racism is shown in this book is how everyone treat Dolphus Raymond. He is a white man married to a black female, with kids that are mixed. People treat Raymond like trash because they think he is at the same level as the African Americans in Maycomb. Last but not least, when the kids go to Calpurnia’s church and meet Lula who tells them, “You ain’t got no business bringin’ whit chillun here, they go to their own church, we got our’n.”(Lee 188) As you can see this quote explains how Lula an African American female thought about the kids going to their church. These three reasons are three key parts of the book to explain how racism affects the people of

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