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During the 1930’s depression, there was a great divide between black and white America. There were many communities and groups who had been exposed to the same treatment and persecution as the Negroes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee has used a small town setting, such as that in To Kill a Mockingbird, to illustrate America’s views on white supremacy and the inferiority of the black race. The author has illustrated view that are expressed world-wide through her characters in Maycomb county.

In this lesson Atticus teaches Scout that you must understand where someone comes from in order to show true sympathy and compassion. Now before Scout judges someone she steps into their shoes. Allowing her to show compassion towards that person and many more. She has learned that the most compassion you can give someone is sympathy and understanding. Jem also learned these lessons but through experiences and challenges he had to face and go through.

As a result of Atticus's decision, Jem and Scout get into a number of fights with classmates and their cousin when they taunt them and call Atticus a "nigger lover." Life seems to be full of lesson for Scout and Jem. For example, when a rabid dog chases Scout, she discovers that her father, whom she previously thought too old to do anything, does possess some talents. Atticus turns out be a crack shot, killing the dog in one shot at a great distance. Another time the children learn to be tolerant of people who have problems even though they say mean things. A neighbor, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, derides Atticus and spreads lies about him, and screams insults at the children when they pass by. Jem gets very angry at her and cuts off her flowers from her bushes. Instead of siding with Jem, Atticus feels that what he did is wrong and as punishment, Jem has to read out loud to her every day to take her mind off her predicament. Atticus holds this old woman up as an example of true courage as she

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Prejudice should not exist in this world. But unfortunately, it does and it always will somehow. The book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is an inspiring book and brings out hard truths about how the world used to be, about the great depression, and in some aspects how it still is today. It follows a girl named Scout and her family through three years of her childhood. Her father, Atticus Finch, took on a very big challenge to defend a negro for raping a girl. The book sort of revolves around this event. Prejudice is in many different forms of discrimination. Throughout the book it is demonstrated by race, class, and gender.

Prejudice is seen throughout the world in many forms even after the Civil Rights Movement. To Kill a Mockingbird shows the extreme prejudice that African Americans were faced with at that time period. This book shows prejudice through character interactions.

The prejudice seen in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee corresponds with the real narrow-mindedness during this time period. A fair trial would be unlikely during this time period between a white and a black man. Tom Robinson was presumed guilty because of his race.

They also showed bravery because Scout and Jem refused multiple times to not leave their father’s side because they wanted to protect their father and Tom. Another life lesson the film teaches viewers is prejudice. There is a story that Boo Radley, a neighbor of Scout and Jem, is a strange person because he never leaves the house, and there are rumors that he is violent. However, Boo Radley comes out of the shadows to save Scout and Jem from the man harassing and wrestling them. This scene teaches viewers the lesson that nobody should prejudice or judge anyone because Boo was not the person people in town said he was. Boo ended up saving the children from the real monster which was the man attacking Scout and Jem. Atticus Finch’s character constantly taught lessons about bravery. For example, Atticus went against the town’s wishes and decided to defend Tom Robinson. Moreover, he ignored the comments people made about him defending an African-American. One example of bravery from Atticus that he taught his children and the viewers is when a white man calls Atticus a negro

Prejudice and discrimination is looked down upon, yet people still continue to be judgmental and have preconceived assumptions about others. It is a common thing that still happens in today’s society. To be particular, racial discrimination is one example of prejudice and is based solely on the color of one’s skin. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson is a caring individual who tries his hardest to treat everyone he meets with appreciation and respect. However, he is African American, which influences him and the other characters' lives in different ways. All he wants to do is help out another character, Mayella, which inevitably costs him his life in the end. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the character of Tom Robinson to illustrate the fact that innocent people are sometimes victimized to a racist society.

Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird In today’s world, prejudice still exists in the form of racism, bias, and discrimination. In the United States, racism is present against people of color (non-whites), and in South Africa, this racism exists as xenophobia. Prejudice is a bias, not based upon reason or real experience. It is a preconception of an individual, or a specific group.

To Kill A Mockingbird Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, other groups of people are judged unfairly just because of their difference from others. The prejudice and bigotry of society causes the victimization of people with differences. Some who are discriminated against are those who are born differently than the majority. One person that is treated unfairly is Calpurnia, as you can see when Aunt Alexandra tried to get Atticus to fire Calpurnia, because in her eyes, Calpurnia wasn't a good enough

This lesson will make Scout sympathise with the people around hers situations, even if she doesn’t like them or can’t relate, which will make her a more sympathetic person and will help her shape her life around her. Furthermore, Atticus had another chance to teach a lesson to one of his children when Jem, his son, in a fit of rage against Mrs.Dubose, a sour old woman who was a neighbor of the Finches, he cut off all of the buds on Mrs.Dubose’s camellias. In response to this, Atticus makes Jem read to her every night as both a lesson and a punishment. Eventually, after her death, he

We have long been a society that has judged based on skin color, ethnicity, and religious orientation. To Kill A Mockingbird speaks to just that. Scout, Jem, and Atticus live together in a small town that is full of widespread prejudice, and hate against one another for small differences like skin color. The old days in America, especially in the South, where prejudice was rampant and widely viewed as acceptable. Society was brainwashed into believing that whites are higher being than black people.

Prejudice is everywhere. In schools, in public, sometimes even at home. Prejudice is to judge and assume conclusions about someone based on their skin color or the fact that they are a woman. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee prejudice is shown in many different forms. The book is prejudice towards women to discrimination against blacks. Although the book took place in the 1960s and discrimination was okay for white people then, to prejudge someone based on their skin color is not the fair thing to do. Prejudice allows hasty and irrational decisions to be made.

"Tradition makes the mind a slave - you are no longer an individual, but merely a product” (Bruce Lee). Bruce Lee realizes that instead of thinking themselves, most people are just a product of thousands before. Mindlessly heeding tradition creates the prejudice seen in the fictional town Harper Lee describes in the book To Kill a Mockingbird of Maycomb, Alabama. Set in the Great Depression Era, Scout Finch, the narrator, and her older brother Jem Finch are residents in the Southern town Maycomb. During Scout’s second grade, the town’s white trash, the Ewells, accused Tom Robinson, a black male, of rape. Judge Taylor appoints Atticus Finch, Scout and Jem’s father, to defend Tom Robinson. However, Maycomb was a Southern town, and the story took place during the 1930s. From before the trial to the end, the Finch’s face constant abuse because Atticus took the case, Although evidence pointed differently, the jury of the trial found Tom Robinson guilty and he killed in prison. Throughout the plot of the story, Jem and Scout learn of the heavy prejudice and discrimination present in their hometown. However, the prejudice isn’t caused by nothing. Maycomb’s residents' refusal of letting their traditions go is a major cause of the prejudice, and eventually, discrimination. For one to achieve equality, they must not allow their traditions and expectations define their thoughts, actions, and character.