In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, there are gender, racial, and social class prejudice.
Firstly, throughout the book gender prejudice was shown by most of the folks in Maycomb County. For example, the book shows Scout was laughed at by the Finch family because of her lack of ladylike, and because she was a girl she was expected to act more ladylike and wear girl clothing. For more proof, in To Kill the Mockingbird the men of Maycomb talk of how women should not participate in the court system because this may cause a confrontation with some crazy convict. I think that gender prejudice is an important topic of the book because the girls in the examples above are being restricted from things that society doesn’t want them to do and they
Firstly, throughout the book gender prejudice was shown by most of the folks in Maycomb County. For example, the book shows Scout was laughed at by the Finch family because of her lack of ladylike, and because she was a girl she was expected to act more ladylike and wear girl clothing. For more proof, in To Kill the Mockingbird the men of Maycomb talk of how women should not participate in the court system because this may cause a confrontation with some crazy convict. I think that gender prejudice is an important topic of the book because the girls in the examples above are being restricted from things that society doesn’t want them to do and they