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How Does Lee Use Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the passage starting on page 327 and ending on page 331 to show Maycomb’s blindness to prejudice in their own town. Throughout the entire book there are many difference types of prejudice including race, gender, and age prejudice, but no one seems to realize they are being prejudice. When examples of prejudice come a long that are not focused in Maycomb (in this case the Nazis and Jews) the town of Maycomb is upset by it. It is hypocritical of them to think prejudice outside of Maycomb is bad, when it is such a big problem in Maycomb and they don’t even realize it. The passage focuses on Scout’s class and them learning about the Nazis persecuting the Jews and how their teacher, Miss Gates feels that prejudice (especially in this case) is horrible, but she is one of the main people in this chapter to be prejudiced against something. …show more content…

The Grit Paper is a paper that is used in the poorer, rural part of town and is cheaper, but only filled with local news stories. The Paper represents classes and how things from the poorer part of town won’t be as good as things from the more wealthy part of town. For example “The rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The Grit Paper, a publication spurious in the eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher” (Lee 327). By Miss Gates saying she doesn't like The Grit Paper, its like shes saying she doesn't like poorer, more rural people and she is prejudice against them because of their paper. It's not the poor people’s fault they can’t afford expensive

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