To kill a mockingbird

Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird.


“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really

understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-‘

‘Sir’?

‘-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (35).

There are many accounts of racism in Harpers Lee’s novel, but Atticus Finch along with his

children Scout and Jem, try and uphold this thought that Atticus taught scout. That no

matter what you will never understand someone else until you try and see it from their point

of view.

Some people are so blinded by greed of social greatness, that they try and raise their status

by pushing the people that are “different” from them down. “Atticus said to Jem one day, Td

rather you shoot at tin cans in the back...