Prejudice is something that was used to keep people down and in this novel we are shown how it looks and affects people. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a lot of racial prejudice present. The people of Maycomb County make it well known that they do not like black people and people who aren’t well off. Although prejudice isn’t limited to racial prejudice, there are other types of prejudice that include religion and gender. The novel makes it evident that they are trying to discuss racial prejudice while also talking about prejudice against those who don’t have a lot of money. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, it states, “She was as sad, I thought, as what Jem called a mixed child: white people wouldn’t have anything to do with her because she lived among pigs; Negroes wouldn’t …show more content…
The color of your skin and socioeconomic status play a big role in the way you are defined and treated. Overall, it’s unfair for people to get treated based on their skin color, socioeconomic status, physical appearance, and race. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, it also states, “The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the Sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption—the evil assumption—that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their ca black people shouldn’t be trusted and aren’t “normal” the way they think. No matter what black people do, they are always in the wrong even if they do the right thing. Not only do they think that black people are liars and immoral, they believe that they can not be trusted around women due to their lower stature in