Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Prejudice

Have you ever gotten looked down on because you’re not the same color as the person standing next to you? Or have you never been treated equally because they don't respect your religion? Being prejudice does not make you a big man or cool or popular it's a very bad thing if you are prejudice because you think you're above that person just because of the way they look or what religion they are. I will be typing about prejudice and what it means and examples from books such as The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Merchant of Venice also Defiance (Holocaust Unit).

Prejudice means an unfavorable thought or opinion towards certain people and religion without any knowledge, thought or reason.

The setting of the story and the time period of the story made a ton of sense because during that time black people were people who did stuff for you and you can mistreat them all you want and won't get in any trouble. During the time when slavery was a thing Alabama was one of the biggest states involved and the setting was in Maycomb, Alabama. The man getting acused of rapping Mayela Ewell is Tom Robinson and he was one of the nicest black men in all of Maycomb and he respected white people even though almost everyone white person except for the Finch family thought he should lose the case because he was black. It was crazy how many people were against black people even people Scouts age didn't like them here's an example. “Do all lawyers defend negroes, Atticus?” Atticus responded, “of course they do Scout.” Scout replied, “ Then why did Cecil say you defended niggers? He made it sound like you were runnin’ a still.” (Lee 75). Its unbelievable that Cecil and Scout aren't even teenagers yet and they’re saying nigger like its nothing, like it doesn't mean anything. If a kid that age said that nowadays then they don't have a very good role model at home or they're not in the right environment. Another very important quote in the story is when Scout said “Naw Jem I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.” (Lee 227). What Scout is saying is that out of all the people in Maycomb county whether it's Boo Radley, Tom Robinson or Bob Ewell there all the same and there all folks. This is a very brave thing to say when you're living in Maycomb county during this time period because some people didn't believe black people should be treated like white people and there's still people out in the world today who don't think that. But Scout is saying no matter what