Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird
The definition of prejudice is preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. There is a lot of prejudice throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The author of this book is Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was a book based around the Great depression. There are three main types of prejudice throughout the book. There is gender, class, and racial prejudice. An example of people that show prejudice are Jem, Bob Ewell, and the Cunninghams. Jem shows gender prejudice, Bob Ewell shows racial prejudice, and the Cunninghams show class prejudice.
There is gender prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird. An example of this is when Jem tells Scout to stop acting like a girl. “I was not …show more content…
An example of racial prejudice is when one of Scout's classmates comes up to her and says, “Your dad's a nigger lover.” Scout gets upset by this and goes home after school and asks Atticus about “nigger lover”. “Scout” said Atticus,”nigger lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything” (Lee 107). Another example of racial prejudice is when Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her black church. Then they come in a women named Lula said that Jem and Scout shouldn’t be at their church. This shows that in the town of Maycomb blacks and whites just aren’t accepting of each other. The last example of racial prejudice is when Scout asked how they know if they are negroes or not. This shows that people just say you are a negro because of the color of your skin but someone could have negro in them and not have dark …show more content…
An example of class prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Aunt Alexandra wanted Scout to dress and act like a lady. This shows that the Finches are a in a higher class than most people and Aunt Alexandra wants to show it in the way they dress. Another example is when Walter Cunningham didn’t have any lunch money. An excerpt from the text is “He didn’t have any lunch” I said , and explained my involvement of Walters dietary affairs. This shows that the Cunninghams are in the lower class because they don’t have enough money to give Walter a lunch at school, because of this the Finches let Walter have dinner with them every once and awhile. The last example of class prejudice is when Tom Robinson is accused of rape just because he was black. This is class prejudice because if you are black you are the lowest class in the town of Maycomb. Tom had way better evidence that Bob and Mayella Ewell but he still was accused of the rape because he was
The definition of prejudice is preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. There is a lot of prejudice throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The author of this book is Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was a book based around the Great depression. There are three main types of prejudice throughout the book. There is gender, class, and racial prejudice. An example of people that show prejudice are Jem, Bob Ewell, and the Cunninghams. Jem shows gender prejudice, Bob Ewell shows racial prejudice, and the Cunninghams show class prejudice.
There is gender prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird. An example of this is when Jem tells Scout to stop acting like a girl. “I was not …show more content…
An example of racial prejudice is when one of Scout's classmates comes up to her and says, “Your dad's a nigger lover.” Scout gets upset by this and goes home after school and asks Atticus about “nigger lover”. “Scout” said Atticus,”nigger lover is just one of those terms that don’t mean anything” (Lee 107). Another example of racial prejudice is when Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to her black church. Then they come in a women named Lula said that Jem and Scout shouldn’t be at their church. This shows that in the town of Maycomb blacks and whites just aren’t accepting of each other. The last example of racial prejudice is when Scout asked how they know if they are negroes or not. This shows that people just say you are a negro because of the color of your skin but someone could have negro in them and not have dark …show more content…
An example of class prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird is when Aunt Alexandra wanted Scout to dress and act like a lady. This shows that the Finches are a in a higher class than most people and Aunt Alexandra wants to show it in the way they dress. Another example is when Walter Cunningham didn’t have any lunch money. An excerpt from the text is “He didn’t have any lunch” I said , and explained my involvement of Walters dietary affairs. This shows that the Cunninghams are in the lower class because they don’t have enough money to give Walter a lunch at school, because of this the Finches let Walter have dinner with them every once and awhile. The last example of class prejudice is when Tom Robinson is accused of rape just because he was black. This is class prejudice because if you are black you are the lowest class in the town of Maycomb. Tom had way better evidence that Bob and Mayella Ewell but he still was accused of the rape because he was