What examples of prejudice does Scout encounter in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and what does she learn through her experiences?

Prejudice stems from many things; it can come from any person at any time. Sometimes it is part of a person when they are born. A whole town, state or country can show prejudice towards others, in many cases it ends in violence. Hitler showed an extreme example when he tried to remove toe Jewish race from all the countries Germany occupied and blamed the Jews for society’s ills. He thought they were all inferior and the Germans were the superior, Aryan race. Hitler did not think all of his decisions all the way through, prejudices are caused by the lack of knowledge of others. Most of the Maycomb people are presented as prejudiced in the novel through their behaviour and speech towards the Negroes, as Aunt Alexandra shows in her early treatment of Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird is thought by critics to be a true account of what life is like in the state of Alabama in the 1930s because Lee grew up around that time in a small town called Monroeville. Maycomb is thought to b...