To Kill A Mockingbird- The Negative Effects of Prejudice Prejudice is disliking someone or having hatred based on something they cannot control in To Kill A Mockingbird this is something that happens in their everyday lives. To Kill A Mockingbird is a story of a small town with a lot of racism between the people who live in Maycomb. Within the story there is trial where in the end it comes down to white vrs black. Prejudice in the story To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee causes a lot negative situations which helps others open up their mind to what is going around them. This is illustrated by Scouts life changed in a negative way because of the racism in her town. Atticus had a talk with Scout about fighting. The kids at school in the
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Mr. Cunningham had been trying to stall the trial. So when Scout was trying to make conversation with him based on stuff he knows about. ‘“Entailments are bad’, I was advising him, when I slowly awoke, to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation” Scout thinks (Lee 205). Mr. Cunningham was prejudice and he was stalling the trial because he felt that Tom Robinson was innocent after Scout opened him up to the truth. The negative event of Tom being acussed of the rapeing Mayella, and everyone atomatically believing he did it caused Scout to open up to the truth. Scout opening up helped her show Mr. Cunningham how to open up also. They had been waiting all day for the verdict. Scout had been very tired and some in the courtroom had fallen asleep. ‘“Ain’t it a long time?”’ (Lee 281). The jury is trying to convict Tom Robinson, but after Atticus opened up one member of the jury's to the possibility that just because he is black it does not mean he has to do it. He showed them thats it is not a one sided argument. The jury opening up caused them to take the longer than usual on a black vrs white case. One person opening up can lead to more people learning and opening up
Mr. Cunningham had been trying to stall the trial. So when Scout was trying to make conversation with him based on stuff he knows about. ‘“Entailments are bad’, I was advising him, when I slowly awoke, to the fact that I was addressing the entire aggregation” Scout thinks (Lee 205). Mr. Cunningham was prejudice and he was stalling the trial because he felt that Tom Robinson was innocent after Scout opened him up to the truth. The negative event of Tom being acussed of the rapeing Mayella, and everyone atomatically believing he did it caused Scout to open up to the truth. Scout opening up helped her show Mr. Cunningham how to open up also. They had been waiting all day for the verdict. Scout had been very tired and some in the courtroom had fallen asleep. ‘“Ain’t it a long time?”’ (Lee 281). The jury is trying to convict Tom Robinson, but after Atticus opened up one member of the jury's to the possibility that just because he is black it does not mean he has to do it. He showed them thats it is not a one sided argument. The jury opening up caused them to take the longer than usual on a black vrs white case. One person opening up can lead to more people learning and opening up