To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice Essay

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel based off the life of Harper Lee. The story takes place is Maycomb, Alabama, and is told through the viewpoint of Scout, a six year old girl at the beginning of the story. The events in the story take place over a period of three years. Scout and her older brother, Jem, encounter a lot of prejudice in their hometown. Racial prejudice, socioeconomic prejudice, and gender prejudice all exist in Maycomb. Racial prejudice is a negative attitude towards…

“Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you” have, “prejudice, you can 't move, you keep prejudice” with you, “for years” (Bob Marley). Similarly, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel about the racism and prejudices in a small southern town. While in To Kill A Mockingbird, a young boy, Jem, and a young girl, Scout, experience the racism and prejudice within their own town. At first the young duo accepts what is happening around them. On the contrary, as the story continues the young…

The Price of Prejudice Reading old books in seventh grade would not be the most fun activity for most of us, but The Pearl, To Kill a Mockingbird and "Twelve Angry Men" would be an exemption from that category. Each story has racism, which causes the reader to pity the victim and detest the offender. Also in all of the books, the main characters go through a very life threatening and life changing attack, which makes the characters change substantially. Furthermore, all of the stories teach…

Secondly, class prejudice occurs in the book. It’s shown through how different people in Maycomb are treated. The Finch’s are on the more wealthy side of Maycomb, the Ewells are one of the most poor families in Maycomb, and the Cunninghams are also very poor in terms of money. “Yo’ folks might be better than the Cunningham’s but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em,” (Lee 32). Scout Finch thinks that her little town of Maycomb is a perfect, fairytale town. She soon learns…

The Silent Weapon of Prejudice Every person has the power to wield the deadliest weapon to ever exist in mankind: prejudice. Prejudice is the weapon that destroys even the purest of hearts and is seen not only in To Kill a Mockingbird , but in our day to day lives. From Tom Robinson being found “guilty” because of the color of his skin, to certain ethnicities being looked down upon today, prejudice lies all around us, hiding even in the darkest of corners. In the book, not only was this a time…

chose not to, the people we chose to be around and the things we chose to stand up for. In the tired southern town of Maycomb, Alabama we see a great divide derived from racial differences. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, it is shown how the citizens of Maycomb deal with racial prejudice and how they respond to such topics. The book demonstrates how their actions can determine their future, and in some cases, their fate. Some handle this differently than others, which is shown in the…

This is seen very commonly in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, which demonstrates that in Maycomb, the main town of the book, most of the characters are shown having extreme racial prejudice against African Americans. Back in the 1930’s, especially in the South, many people harshly judged each other based on race, and took advantage of that. This is a commonly seen theme in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, where an African American man, Tom Robinson, was falsely accused…

I believe that prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. In the novels “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Of Mice And Men” written by Harper Lee and John Steinbeck there is a lot of prejudice against black people and women. In my essay I am going to talk about different examples of prejudice in the two books. In both novels, the authors show there is prejudice against women. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout is told she has to ‘wear a dress’ because she is…

Both the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the movie A Time To Kill, an adaption of the book by John Grisham, portray racism is similar and different ways. They represent racism through the themes of Justice, Violence, Prejudice, and Compassion, but have comparable differences, due to the time frame, setting, and storyline. Racism is portrayed through the theme of justice, or the lack thereof, in both To Kill a Mockingbird and A Time To Kill, which is primarily evident in the court…

several prejudices, such as racism and sexism are widespread. To Kill A Mockingbird explores these taboo subjects and raises awareness of the prevalence of them by following the trial of a black man accused of rape. When the novel was first published, mass controversy followed due to the subject matters explored in the novel. However, this controversy never disappeared; today, teachers, students, parents, and lawmakers still debate over whether or not the novel should be taught in schools. To…