In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are several forms of discrimination within the community of Maycomb, Alabama. The lower class, the Finch family, and most of all, black people, are all prejudiced against. Young people like Scout and Jem didn’t always understand the bias, but they learned a lot about people and their beliefs throughout the story.
First of all, the people in Maycomb discriminated against each other by their social classes. According to Jem, "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) When Scout went to school, she explained the different families in Maycomb to us and why they are all different. The lower classes are definitely discriminated against, but the higher class is discriminated against too. When Scout first goes to school, she gets in trouble because she can already read and write. She was too advanced for her age, and her teacher told her to stop reading. …show more content…
Atticus defending Tom Robinson angered a lot of the community, and the kids at school teased Jem and Scout about it. Scout actually got into a few fights after kids called her father a “nigger-lover”. Mr. Ewell, the man who accused Tom Robinson of rape, probably hated the Finches the most, because he threatened Atticus and spit in his face. Mr. Ewell was also willing to hurt Atticus’s children to get to him. “According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him.” (Lee
First of all, the people in Maycomb discriminated against each other by their social classes. According to Jem, "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) When Scout went to school, she explained the different families in Maycomb to us and why they are all different. The lower classes are definitely discriminated against, but the higher class is discriminated against too. When Scout first goes to school, she gets in trouble because she can already read and write. She was too advanced for her age, and her teacher told her to stop reading. …show more content…
Atticus defending Tom Robinson angered a lot of the community, and the kids at school teased Jem and Scout about it. Scout actually got into a few fights after kids called her father a “nigger-lover”. Mr. Ewell, the man who accused Tom Robinson of rape, probably hated the Finches the most, because he threatened Atticus and spit in his face. Mr. Ewell was also willing to hurt Atticus’s children to get to him. “According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him.” (Lee