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Essay On Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Prejudice is all around us. In our schools, workplaces, towns, even our homes. People hate others over ridiculous things. Things like skin color, or financial stability. Where they are from, things their family has done. Predjudice is all around us and it is prevalent in the books To Kill a Mockingbird, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, The Merchant of Venice, and Those Who Save Us. First is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book there is a court case between Tom Robinson, a black man and Mayella Ewell, a white woman. In the case Mayella accuses Tom of raping and beating her. She was beat on the right side of her face which means that the culprit was left handed. Tom Robinson got his left hand stuck in a cotton gin …show more content…

He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers” To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee pg, 74. Cecil’s parents must have told him about Atticus defending Tom and decided it was acceptable to influence their child with racism against this innocent man and other innocent people like him. Next is, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This book is about a boy named Junior who lives on a Indian reservation and wants to be sucessful and wants to do more with his life. He knows the only way to do anything with his life is to leave the reservation and go to an all white school outside the rez. He was seen as a traitor by his own tribe and an outsider in the white school. “‘Hey, Chief, you want to hear a joke?’ ‘Sure’ I said ‘Did you know that Indians are living proof that niggers fuck buffalo?’” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-TIme Indian Sherman Alexie pg,64. That comment made by Roger at the white school was the most rasict thing Junior had ever heard. Junior responded by punching him which is what would have been expected on the reservation. The boys from Reardan were just shocked and didn’t do anything. That really shows the difference between the schools on the reservation and

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