Prejudice is seen many different times in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. What matters most doesn’t lie within prejudice itself, but rather how prejudice is challenged by the characters in TKAM. There are four examples for challenging prejudice that really stuck out for me. The first example for challenging prejudice was through empathy. Atticus first introduces empathy as being a way to challenge prejudice when he talks to Scout and Jem about putting themselves in other people’s shoes. This sticks with the two kids all throughout the book. Another time that we see empathy challenging prejudice is when Dolphus Raymond says to Dill. “Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about
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Barra provides us with the idea that some of Atticus’ most inspiring quotes were all just written to be quoted in High School English papers. What I get from this is that maybe when Atticus told Scout and Jem to put themselves in other people’s shoes he had no intention of challenging prejudice, but rather he was just telling them that so they wouldn’t relive the same moment twice. This could very well be seen as just a random entailment, but it can also be taken in a very serious …show more content…
Gladwell provides us with a quote from Heck Tate that says. “To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight-to me, that’s a sin.” (Gladwell 4) Gladwell then after says, “The courthouse ring had spoken. Maycomb would go back to the ways it had always been.” .(Gladwell 4) Malcolm supports Atticus’ decision to defend Tom Robinson, but he knows that Maycomb won’t change its ways because of one courtroom
Barra provides us with the idea that some of Atticus’ most inspiring quotes were all just written to be quoted in High School English papers. What I get from this is that maybe when Atticus told Scout and Jem to put themselves in other people’s shoes he had no intention of challenging prejudice, but rather he was just telling them that so they wouldn’t relive the same moment twice. This could very well be seen as just a random entailment, but it can also be taken in a very serious …show more content…
Gladwell provides us with a quote from Heck Tate that says. “To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight-to me, that’s a sin.” (Gladwell 4) Gladwell then after says, “The courthouse ring had spoken. Maycomb would go back to the ways it had always been.” .(Gladwell 4) Malcolm supports Atticus’ decision to defend Tom Robinson, but he knows that Maycomb won’t change its ways because of one courtroom