To Kill A Mockingbird Prejudice Quotes

The prejudice that is demonstrated throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee reveals how a community views certain groups of people.

As one reads through the book To Kill a Mockingbird they see that sexism is revealed from the very beginning of the text. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, points out, “Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum powder,” (Lee 5). Each gender has a specific role in Maycomb County. If one person does not follow their role then they are looks down upon in the county. Miss Maudie, for example, she likes to garden and be outside. While the

In the book the children do not have mother because she passed away when the kids were young. The Finch family has a slave named Calpurnia who does so much for the kids and is like a mother to Scout and Jem. When Aunt Alexandra comes to stay with the Atticus and the kids. Alexandra wants to get rid of Calpurnia especially after she brings the kids, without permission, to her all black church. Aunt Alexandra pleads to Atticus: “You,ve gotta do something about her… You’ve let things go on for too long, Atticus, Too long,” (Lee 136). Calpurnia becomes a great part of the childrens’ lives so much that Atticus accepts her as family. It is inappropriate that Aunt Alexandra wants to get rid of Calpurnia after one mistake. If Atticus is okay with the way that Calpurnia teaches the kids and what she lets the kids see in the world then let Calpurnia stay. There is no need to get rid of her just because she is black and does things a bit different than white folks. Later on we see more racism through the Tom Robinson trials. Lee Harper takes us through the trial of a black man, Tom Robinson who supposedly raped a white woman, when in fact he did not because she came onto him, and Tom, the black man, is taken to court. The verdict of the trail is obvious but the jury did not seem to think so. Lee reveals: “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty… guilty… guilty,’” (Lee 211). Atticus was the lawyer

Jem tries to explain to Scout that there are many different people in the world he explains: “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods. The kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes,” (Lee 226). One learns just what Scout does. Everyone is different no matter who you are you will be looked at, for better or for worse, and judged for who you are and where you come from. If you are a Finch you are known for being wealthy and classy. If you are a Cunningham you are known as lesser folk who does dirty work but still has a potential. If you are a Ewell then you are dirty filthy and pretty much worthless but they stay out of your way. Atticus also tries to show Scout how that some people have different rules because of how much they do or do not have. Atticus tells Scout about how there are certain rules set and place and no one wants to disrupt those rules. If someone disrupted the rules then they my disrupt a way of life. To show Scout what he means he expounds: “You , Miss Scout Finch, are of the common folk. You must obey the law. He said that the Ewells were made up of an exclusive society made up of Ewells. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges… They didn’t have to go to school… Mr. Bob Ewell… was permitted to hunt and trap out of