Prejudice in Maycomb County Throughout history, prejudice has followed certain groups. In TKMB prejudice is very strong and reaches a boiling point. In TKMB by Harper Lee many different themes are presented. Prejudice is one of them. Many groups of people are treated unfairly because of their stature, race, and gender. In Maycomb, prejudice is expressed because of stature. The amount of money that you have does not affect the way that people respect you. The way that you obtain that money is how you are respected. For example the cunninghams and the Ewells have close to the same amount of money but the Cunninghams own land and farm it. The Ewells don’t even try to make money. They receive all that they have from the government. They are just freeloaders that do nothing to contribute to their society. Even though you can be respected with little or no money, you cannot have power in Maycomb without having more money than everybody else. Jem makes a remark about the way he views social classes in Maycomb, “There are 4 kinda …show more content…
During the 1930’s in the south was one of the most violent times for black people living down there. They were constantly being attacked for things that were false and also they were n0ot given fair chances. For example Tom Robinson was innocent of rape and it was very easy to see that but the jury was all white and the whole town was not going to let an innocent black man prevail over a guilty white man. Then when Tom was sent to prison he tried to escape. Instead of shooting him once to stop him, he was shot 17 times dead. The town was not even given more than 2 days to grieve his death, no obituary in the paper or anything like that. The hate for blacks is so much that Atticus decides to defend one and he becomes hated just for defending one. You can see the racism in the area by just listening how they talk. Many people in the town will constantly use hurtful words like”n***r” and