Essay 7
Everyone has prejudice at times, but sometimes it gets out of control. The definition of prejudice is to judge someone or something without any knowledge on it, to be ignorant to a subject and judge it and anything that is associated with it. Most of the time these judgements are false because there is not any information behind it. Though prejudice maybe involuntary it still does not excuse some peoples actions due to it and the fact that it is wrong. The theme of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird was shown various times through Harper Lee's characters Jeremy "Jem" Finch, Artur "Boo" Radley, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and Tom Robinson.
Many times in this book Jem shows his prejudice against girls. At the time Jem was raised in women …show more content…
People people never wanted to go around the Radley's house because of these roumors. This is a very clear example of prejudice, all of the people of Maycomb believed Boo was dangerous and insane because of something he did in his past. Maycomb's citzens did not try to think of Boo's situation and critizie him and judge him. The fact that he did not come outside gave them more reasons to make up rumors. The citzens made up these roumors because they were not exactly sure what happened when Boo stabbed his dad, so they started to come up with things that could fit the cracks. People like Stephanie Crawford made up ridiculous stories to get attention and fit in with others, but because of things like this Boo's image was getting damaged more and more. Like Atticus said "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"(lee, 39). The people of Maycomb were wrong at the end because Boo saved Jem and Scouts lives, he could not have been the monster they described. All Boo really wanted was some friends and the peoples' rude words and rumors kept him from that, but at the end Boo got his
Everyone has prejudice at times, but sometimes it gets out of control. The definition of prejudice is to judge someone or something without any knowledge on it, to be ignorant to a subject and judge it and anything that is associated with it. Most of the time these judgements are false because there is not any information behind it. Though prejudice maybe involuntary it still does not excuse some peoples actions due to it and the fact that it is wrong. The theme of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird was shown various times through Harper Lee's characters Jeremy "Jem" Finch, Artur "Boo" Radley, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and Tom Robinson.
Many times in this book Jem shows his prejudice against girls. At the time Jem was raised in women …show more content…
People people never wanted to go around the Radley's house because of these roumors. This is a very clear example of prejudice, all of the people of Maycomb believed Boo was dangerous and insane because of something he did in his past. Maycomb's citzens did not try to think of Boo's situation and critizie him and judge him. The fact that he did not come outside gave them more reasons to make up rumors. The citzens made up these roumors because they were not exactly sure what happened when Boo stabbed his dad, so they started to come up with things that could fit the cracks. People like Stephanie Crawford made up ridiculous stories to get attention and fit in with others, but because of things like this Boo's image was getting damaged more and more. Like Atticus said "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"(lee, 39). The people of Maycomb were wrong at the end because Boo saved Jem and Scouts lives, he could not have been the monster they described. All Boo really wanted was some friends and the peoples' rude words and rumors kept him from that, but at the end Boo got his