Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird “The thing about it is, our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks” (Lee 302-303). Harper Lee masterfully tells the story about a little girl named Scout and her brother Jem. They go on many adventures and explore the world as they grow up. Although, the book is quite humorous at times it can also get incredibly hostile. To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates various types of prejudice such as racial, social-economical, and discrimination against gender. Scout and Jem witness or are affected by these types of bigotry. Racial discrimination is big if not the biggest type of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird. For example, in the book Atticus Finch, Scout’s …show more content…
For example, when Miss Caroline Fisher, Scout’s teacher, says she is from Winston County the whole class disgraces her. “The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region” (Lee 21). The class thinks this because Winston County broke away from Alabama in the Civil War. Also, Scout yells at Walter Cunningham for putting molasses on his lunch. “Walter poured syrup on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand. He would probably have poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he was doing” (Lee 32). Walter does this because he never gets to have syrup and Scout doesn’t know this. Walter is very poor. Lastly, the Ewells take in lots of prejudice they deserve it though. “Atticus said the Ewells had been a disgrace of Maycomb for three generations” (Lee 40). People don’t like the Ewells because they are poor. There is a difference between the Ewells and the Cunninghams though. The Ewells don’t work and the Cunninghams do. As you can see, social-economic impacts different characters and Scout learns how to