In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee reveals how prejudice is portrayed through the characters in the story. Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley are all victims of prejudice in the novel and each of the opinions towards them are proven wrong. During the trial of Tom Robinson, people are prejudice towards him purely because of the fact that he’s an african american man who was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. The day of the trial occurred and the jury was predominantly white. While Bob was accusing Tom he said “I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” Rather than treating Tom as just a person he had to reference Tom’s race in his testimony. Mayella took the stand and admitted she was never examined by a medical examiner after the incident and while being questioned by Atticus, it was obvious she was lying and Mr. Ewell could of beaten her. Although all this information was brought about, the white jury still convicted Tom of rapeing Mrs. Ewell. He never had a chance of winning the trial because of his skin color and the prejudice that whites are superior to blacks. …show more content…
Atticus becomes a victim of prejudice because he gets a lot of backlash due to him defending an african american man. Although Francis and Mrs. Dubose are treating Atticus as if he’s wrong for defending Tom he still sticks to the case. Scout asked Atticus if he’s a nigger-lover and he politely replied with “I certainly am, I do my best to love everybody… it’s never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you” (108). Atticus doesn’t let people’s ignorance get in the way of what he