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Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is an excellent example of acceptance of all people. The main character, Scout, believes that you cannot categorize people. Mr. Underwood considers that the murder of any cripple is wrong, and even a sin, no matter their color or circumstance. Atticus, the most respectable character in the novel, argues that their African American cook is family, something that rarely happened during that time period. Overall, the characters in the novel show different perspectives on prejudice. The young protagonist, Scout, who has not yet been negatively influenced by those around her believes that everyone is the same. When talking to Jem about different kinds of people she tells him, “Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (304). No one is born a racist and Scout proves this by not being able to see any outstanding differences between different types of people. While Scout is young and uninfluenced, Mr. Underwood is older and still has strong morals to stand up and do what it right. …show more content…

Underwood believed that no matter what color they were, it was wrong to kill someone who wasn’t all there mentally or physically. During the falling action when Scout got done reading Mr. Underwood's newspaper she thought,“Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping” (323). Mr. Underwood may not have been immune to Maycomb’s ways, but he took a stand against a needless killing and was not concerned if others thought different than him. While both Mr. Underwood and Atticus showed there support for acceptance of everyone publicly , Atticus also showed his support in a more subtle

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