In today’s society one of the ongoing problems is, too many men and women are prejudice. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, browbeats the future and leaves the present baffling. No one is born prejudiced, it is taught. Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men and women apart. In the popular novel based on a true story “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, prejudice is also one of the ongoing problems.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character (Scout) and her brother (Jem) live in a very racist time period. When the father of the two children (Atticus) is asked to defend a black man named Tom Robinson in a case involving a white women of the age of nineteen (Mayella Ewell). Mayella …show more content…
At the beginning the judge starts to explain the case to all of the jurors. The main jurors are juror 3,8,7, and 10. All of the jurors are in a rush to get out of the courthouse, already none of them are in the mood as it is also a hot summer day. As the script starts to go more in depth about the case, they first begin with taking a vote, which was 11-1. Juror 8 did not think he was guilty and juror 3 started to question juror 8 on why. Juror 3 was positive that the defendant had killed his father, and he had only heard a little bit of detail on the case. Juror 3 was prejudice from the beginning, he made an assumption that this nineteen year old boy had killed his father because of where he had come from and what his record looked like. The defendant had a far from clean record but that certainly does not mean he is capable to commit a crime like this one. After they had gone over some evidence Juror 4 had said “We’re missing the point here. This boy--- let’s say he’s a product of a filthy neighborhood and a broken home. We can’t help that. We’re not here to go into the reasons why slums are breeding grounds for criminals. They are. I know it. So do you. The children who come out of the slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society”(Rose 8). Juror 4 said that anyone who lives in a lower socioeconomic area is destined to cause trouble in society.Just …show more content…
Everyday life especially at Mchenry West high school there is an unbelievable amount of judgement. For example, recently I had an ex-friend that was involved with a harassment on social media, she disrespectfully called a girl horrendice names because she heard rumors about her from a boy. Another big part of being prejudice is racism. I take this subject very seriously ,these days it’s just because someone looks different, they don’t deserve to be treated like a normal human being. It’s like saying just because someone is a bigger size than you they don’t deserve to eat. Nowadays even our president is racist. This affects me greatly, and I can only imagine for the younger children out there that are growing up to think it’s alright to treat someone differently just for the way they look. These people are born that way and we use it against them. It’s transversal, a black person can also be prejudice and that goes for every race or
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character (Scout) and her brother (Jem) live in a very racist time period. When the father of the two children (Atticus) is asked to defend a black man named Tom Robinson in a case involving a white women of the age of nineteen (Mayella Ewell). Mayella …show more content…
At the beginning the judge starts to explain the case to all of the jurors. The main jurors are juror 3,8,7, and 10. All of the jurors are in a rush to get out of the courthouse, already none of them are in the mood as it is also a hot summer day. As the script starts to go more in depth about the case, they first begin with taking a vote, which was 11-1. Juror 8 did not think he was guilty and juror 3 started to question juror 8 on why. Juror 3 was positive that the defendant had killed his father, and he had only heard a little bit of detail on the case. Juror 3 was prejudice from the beginning, he made an assumption that this nineteen year old boy had killed his father because of where he had come from and what his record looked like. The defendant had a far from clean record but that certainly does not mean he is capable to commit a crime like this one. After they had gone over some evidence Juror 4 had said “We’re missing the point here. This boy--- let’s say he’s a product of a filthy neighborhood and a broken home. We can’t help that. We’re not here to go into the reasons why slums are breeding grounds for criminals. They are. I know it. So do you. The children who come out of the slum backgrounds are potential menaces to society”(Rose 8). Juror 4 said that anyone who lives in a lower socioeconomic area is destined to cause trouble in society.Just …show more content…
Everyday life especially at Mchenry West high school there is an unbelievable amount of judgement. For example, recently I had an ex-friend that was involved with a harassment on social media, she disrespectfully called a girl horrendice names because she heard rumors about her from a boy. Another big part of being prejudice is racism. I take this subject very seriously ,these days it’s just because someone looks different, they don’t deserve to be treated like a normal human being. It’s like saying just because someone is a bigger size than you they don’t deserve to eat. Nowadays even our president is racist. This affects me greatly, and I can only imagine for the younger children out there that are growing up to think it’s alright to treat someone differently just for the way they look. These people are born that way and we use it against them. It’s transversal, a black person can also be prejudice and that goes for every race or