Examples Of Racism And Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Racism and Prejudice

In the present world racism and prejudice are not so common as it was in 1900, when Harper Lee wrote the book “To kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee writes about Scout, who is a seven year old girl that s innocent at the beginning of the book As the book ends, she gets to know about all the things that this bad world has in it. In “To kill a mockingbird” Harper Lee uses Scout to show how people prejudge others on race, way of living and gender expectations.

Scout is a little girl who sees how people judge each other on their race. She never understands what the term a “nigger-lover” means, until the people around her force her to. She is frustrated as she wants to find out what it means and so she asks Atticus what “nigger-lover” means. Atticus says, “It’s hard to explain - ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody is favouring Negroes” (108). From this moment on Scout realizes how the people around her judge each other on their skin colour. Scout understands the concept of race when she goes to the Black church where she finds out that the church is unlike the church she attends.When she enters the church she explains the features of the church: “It was an ancient paint-peeled frame building. . .Negroes worshipped in it on Sundays and white man gambled in it

Harper Lee crafts the character of Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird” by her thoughts and attitude towards thing in her daily life. Harper Lee even shows how unfair was the world back then and is now. Scout faces different phases of racism and prejudice in her life and she herself makes people face prejudice and racism for example the Cunninghams and Walter. Scout now surely understands what it is to be judged and what it is like to be