Discrimination In To Kill A Mockingbird, And Of Mice And Men

Discrimination Essay Everyone in the world will experience discrimination at least once in their life. It is something that has become so accepted in the world today, not many people notice it even happening anymore. The famous quote by Roger Staubach, “Discrimination is a disease,” is one of the truest things I have heard. The families that discriminate the most often pass it on to their children, until everyone around them feels that way too. It just feeds off of itself until everyone tends to think that way. The three most examples that stick out to me is the holocaust, the book To Kill a Mockingbird, and of Mice and Men. “Without memory, there would be no culture. Without memory, would be no civilization, no society, no future.” exclaimed Elie Wiesel a holocaust survivor. Many innocent people were killed during this awful time, the jews were discriminated against by Adolf Hitler. It is sad to think about that one man could do this much damage to the
Tom Robinson was a very nice man who did nothing to deserve to die, but he got accused of something he didn’t do and there was no way of proving a black man innocent in that day and time. Although most of the unfair treatment was mostly towards the African American race, Scout and Jem experienced it when they went with Cal to the black church. They told Scout and Jem “to go to their own church.” Atticus was one of the best people in the book to not judge others by appearance, this helped him love everyone and get along with most people no matter where they came from. The quote from Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.” (3. 85-87) This quote from the book symbolizes that we all cannot judge people because we do not know their story or what is going on in