“‘Well, Dill, after all he’s just a Negro’” (1999). One of the main characters says this, and characters all through the story make racist remarks like this; only because this is how they have grown up. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the author, Harper Lee, used prejudice to make the reader think about how unfair society is to people of color. Scout grew up believing that racism is normal since African Americans and white people in her town carry bias towards one another. Many times in this novel, the town of Maycomb exhibits prejudice and it displays how people of color experience unfair treatment. Scout is growing up in a town where the majority of the people are racist, this affects her because she grows up believing that it is typical behavior. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes, “The sheriff …show more content…
Jem says to Scout, “‘They don’t belong anywhere. Colored folks won’t have ‘em because they’re half white; white folks won’t have ’em because they’re colored, so they’re just in-betweens, don’t belong anywhere.’” (161). Colored people and white people have prejudice against each other, and when someone is mixed, no one cares for them because they don’t belong to the whites, or the blacks. Because of the way Jem has grown up, he knows that this is a common way in Maycomb and this is what Scout is learning, too. During Tom Robinson’s court case, Atticus states, “‘She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man.” (204). In Maycomb, having a relationship between races was unheard of and unacceptable. When Mayella Ewell found interest in an African American man, she was frowned upon by both races. People of color and white people in Maycomb have biases against one another because it is unheard of for different races to love each