There are many themes for the book To Kill a Mockingbird but racism has a bigger role in this book. Racism by definition is: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the race tension plays a big role by saying that Atticus favors niggers, and Atticus is a disgrace because he defended Tom Robinson, and not allowing negroes sit with all of the other people. The theme racism is really big because it has much hate is going around in the book. One big point is that people are prejudice by calling people “niggers” and being disrespectful. For example on pages 107-109 is says ‘"Scout,"’ said Atticus, ‘“nigger-lover
