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Scout Finch Prejudice

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In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are a variety of different challenges faced in the 1960s, but with a twist. Instead of being narrated by an adult, it is narrated from the viewpoint of a child. One of the hardest problems the child, Scout Finch, faces is being surrounded by prejudice citizens that live in her town. She can’t quite understand why the people aren’t as accepting as her and the entire Finch family is. The same problem of prejudice is shown during the time of Hitler’s dictatorship as well. The mass amount of death of the Jews at that time all comes back to one problem, prejudice. Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889. It has been proven that he had grown up in a strict environment. His father was hard on him. Hitler was …show more content…

The Nazi’s were a group of people that sided with Hitler, and believed that Germany should have a pure race. They felt as though all Jews were bringing Germany down. The mass extinction of Jews was the follow up to try and save their idea of a “pure and dominant race.” One of Scout’s classmates, Cecil Jacobs, gives us an example of the understanding kids in that time had about prejudice. Cecil Jacobs tells us “old Adolf Hitler has been after the Jews and he’s puttin’ ‘em in prisons and he’s taking away all their property and he won’t let any of ‘em out of the country and he’s washin’ all the feeble-minded… I reckon they don’t have sense enough to wash themselves, I don’t reckon an idiot could keep hisself clean… he’s rounded up all the half-jews too and he wants to register ‘em in case they might wanta cause him any trouble and I think this is a bad thing…” pg. 327-328. The explanation given shows that even though the kids don’t have all the facts or can’t quite wrap their minds around the idea of prejudice, they still know that it is wrong. Scout battles with it throughout the entire novel. Knowing how people should be treated, and still staying strong in her beliefs when everyone around her isn’t as

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