Biases In To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

Everyone has a bias, invisible or not. In to kill a mockingbird many characters have biases that blend into their daily lives making them invisible through their own eyes. These biases make people think differently for good or bad. Biases affect everyone in many ways but some are more noticeable than others.Biases impact characters in the book, the world around us and ourselves. Stopping biases is impossible on mentally mature people because you can make people act differently but you can’t change what they feel and think. Biases shape the world into what is not real just by changing how we think. To kill a mockingbird there are many biases involving people and full communities. The story is set in Maycomb, an imaginary county in southern Alabama, in …show more content…
There were two main kinds of biases in the story about hatred for black people and the judgement of people by their last name. The hatred for black people applied to most people in the county excluding black people, the Finches, judge Taylor and Mr. Underwood. This take a big part in the book because it leads to Tom Robinson's death because he was wrongfully accused in court just because he was black. The biases held against families in this book simply show how people are like by their names. The Cunninghams and the Ewells were poor but the Cunninghams were hard workers which paid their loans by giving their crops unlike the Ewells which were lazy and trashy. Another bias which is not as noticeable as the others is Scouts bias against Boo Radley. Scout has a young brain