How Does Sherman Alexie Use Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou, civil rights activist. Throughout the semester we ready many different books; The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird, a Holocaust book of our choice, and The Merchant of Venice. Each story was about a different topic. One thing that relates them all is the Prejudices shown throughout all four stories. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, prejudice is shown only a few times in the story. One example of this is when Junior goes off of the reservation and into the town. Everyone there treated him different because he was the only Indian, besides the mascot, in an all white school. They acted as

One example of how prejudice is shown is when they are at the courthouse for Tom Robinson’s trial. “She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards,” said Atticus (Lee 204). If the same situation would have happened with a white man instead of Tom Robinson the outcome would have been different. If Atticus provided the same information at the trial of white man he would have been not guilty for sure. That proves how racist and judgemental the people of Maycomb were. “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here- they got their church, we got our’n. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal?” said Lula, a lady from the Negro church (Lee 119). This is an example of reverse prejudice because a Negro woman is being prejudice to white children. She thinks just because people of the same race as the children were prejudice towards her and her race that she can be prejudice towards anyone of the white