Prejudice And The Dark Abyss Of Prejudice By Harper Lee

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee ventures with the reader through a world filled with

Prejudice is transcribed often in literature to focus on society’s manipulative ways to influence people’s judgements of others. In one of the greatest American literature, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is able to demonstrate the various forms of prejudice. The novel is set in the 1930’s in a small town of Maycomb, Alabama, where the author exposes the reality of what it is like to live in a society of segregation. To Kill A Mockingbird analyzes the substantial expectations of people who live in the town of Maycomb and prejudice presents itself when people judge others when basing off of fallacy. The main ideas include the negative effects of falsely claiming information towards a group of people, the lack of equality between men and women, and the cycle of racism that causes social disadvantages. Harper Lee illustrates a fictional society demonstrating numerous counts of injustice from social, gender, and racial prejudice.

Imagine you are stranded on an island and forget who you are and how you look; the only thing you know is that you are hungry. Suddenly, a man appears in the distance staring at you and approaches you with food. You ask him for some, but he does not reply. You beg and beg and realize that he walks past you as if you are invisible. Then you see your reflection in a pond and come to realize that your face is black. It is the twenty-first century, but nothing has changed. Distress and lack of awareness is what preserves racial discrimination as of this day. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” racism is not simply a product of hatred and prejudice; in fact, it is exhibited through ignorance and fear. More precisely, ignorance in society’s wrongful

“I mean in Maycomb County. The thing about it is, our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks” (303). In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Maycomb County prejudices people based on their background and social class. In Maycomb County you must act as your social class to be appropriate and fit to your “kind” of people. The hate for lower classes get worse the lower it gets. Harper Lee divulges on how social class effects the way people are treated. She shows how higher classes think they are superior to the lower classes, they think the lower classes are “trashy” and “uncivilized”. Harper Lee reveals socioeconomic prejudice in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by using characters in fictional Maycomb’s upper, middle, and lower classes.

Mark Twain once said, “The very ink which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” Prejudice is a pre-determined opinion that is not based on facts, reason, and actual experience. It is still a major issue in the world today. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about a six year old girl named Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout, who lives in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Her father, Atticus, is a lawyer who strives to instill moral values in Scout and her brother Jem. Growing up, she sees various examples of prejudice which give her insight into the world that is dominated by injustice. Her experiences reveal that people do not see the world as it really is because they are blinded by the stereotypes

You are black and you are white. You may not sit together. This is life in the 1930s. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee gives us an example on the impacts of racism and prejudice. Set in the dull streets of Maycomb city, To Kill a Mockingbird provides a glimpse of the times throughout The Great Depression and its racial problems. In this unusual story, an innocent black man is accused of rape and killed, a white man pretends to be a drunk and an aloof man is known to be a murderer. Overall, Lee’s book reveals that prejudice is the child of ignorance and how very often it can be used.

Reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" is more than just reading a book about race and injustice. This book is a complex, rich exploration of the risk associated with conforming to gender stereotypes, how poverty and class can limit our abilities to achieve the American dream, and how racism damages both those that peritrate it and those that endure it, and the vital importance of expressing our voices by speaking out against injustice WHEREVER we encounter it. And while it certainly is not the only book about race and injustice, it was one of the FIRST books about race and injustice that inspired people to change their behaviors.

Throughout history, discrimination has made an impact on society and affected people’s behavior. Taking place in a small Alabama county during the 1930’s, Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird largely describes how discrimination and hatred was a huge problem in society told in a young girl named Scout’s point of view. Throughout the story, she learns about the negative effects on colored people with discrimination and racism going on. The effects of discrimination and racism throughout the story resulted in erroneous behavior by others.

Discrimination can be generalized as unequal treatment or consideration of an individual based on the category to which that person belongs to or certain characteristics; rather than basing on their individual merit or assessing their circumstances, stereotypical assumptions are made. Discrimination can occur to anyone, but is prevalent in groups such as race, social class, and gender; throughout American history, the discrimination of these groups was commonplace and a widely accepted behaviour. The reality of these are told through Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird which depicts the childhood of a girl in 1930’s America who experiences first hand discrimination and observes prejudice towards others in her community. Within the town,

Prejudice refers to development of preconceived opinions on the basis of unfounded reasons such as superstition or racial bias. Oftentimes, prejudice induces baseless assumptions concerning a person's motives, resulting in unjust ultimatums. This is one of the most prominent themes featured in “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Nelle Harper Lee. Ubiquitously throughout the novel, it can be observed through the sense of injustice elicited through the main characters’ perceptions of the hypocrisy and overt prejudice riddling society, collectively overruling their moralistic judgment. Those who remain unique to the conventional behavioural expectations of the small, compartmentalized, narrow-minded town of Maycomb appear to experience the most injustice

In our society, we are able to witness how our prejudices can affect the way people live. At times, there are people who come forward and confront the injustice in our lives and try helping the victims. However, there are numerous occasions were we fail to confront the prejudice, and take no notice of the consequences that may result; this is evident in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird where the numerous prejudices and injustices heaped upon various characters brings the society itself to moral conflict. We witness first hand how failing to confront various types of prejudices may result large repercussions.

Humans are born with prejudice, as it is our way to remain on top of the social hierarchy, a modern day version of survival of the fittest. A great example of this is given in Harper Lee 's To Kill a Mockingbird, The memorable quote, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin", is the basic message of the entire novel, to get to know a person rather than to pre-judge and discriminate based upon race or class. Using To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores prejudice using common discourses associated with race and class, context and characterisation to help her readers encapsulate the very essence of her own anti-racist ideology.

When people hear about prejudice, they unconsciously think about racial prejudice. However, it goes way deeper than just that. In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It's a novel about a girl called Scout, her brother Jem, and their father who is a lawyer, Atticus finch, who live in Maycomb County. Atticus Finch decided to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many examples of prejudice and discrimination seem to us throughout the novel. The most obvious type of prejudice that is repetitive throughout the novel is racism. As a matter of fact, there are many other types of prejudice people just forgot about. Economic status or social class, fear of the unknown, and gender roles play a big part of in the

In conclusion Harper Lee and Jeremy Standford explore different aspects of prejudice in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the article Booing Adam Goodes: are we even aware that we’re racist? explore the different forms of prejudice. The concepts of innocence, injustice and relationships are employed in the text to reveal the prejudice within humanity. The discrimination brought to surface within the text reveals that prejudice is destructive to

To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that bases itself upon racism, morality and injustice. Written by Harper Lee, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961 and has become part of the standard literature curriculum in schools nationwide. The story takes place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, a small, poor, old town in the grips of the Great Depression. The novel has exceeding amount of content that reflects the notions of conscience, courage and conviction. Conscience is believed to be a persons sense of right and wrong, while courage is the action of facing a fear and conviction is known to be a formal declaration by the verdict of a jury or the decision of a judge in a court of law that someone is guilty of a criminal offence but can also be a firmly held belief or opinion. These themes are explored throughout the novel through different characters, shown through quotes and actions.