Essay On Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Prejudice still happens today in our society, all people can be a victim or the oppressor to discrimination against others. Prejudice is judging someone on their looks rather than their personality. People judge other in our society by their gender,race, or even their age. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee shows that in the 1930s people tend to treat people a certain way based on their skin color, rather than getting to know them. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, she reveals that people often follow their biases and prejudices rather than the truth.
Harper Lee reveals though Lula, people would rather follow their biases and prejudice, rather than the truth. One example is when Lula stated “You ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here, they got their church, we got our’n”(158) It show that people that of all races can be prejudice to each other. Lula does not think that the white children should be allowed into the colored church. Lula was an example that people would rather be biases or prejudice than treating them equally. People that
This is shown when Francis commented “Grandma says it’s bad enough he lets yo all run wild, but now he turned out a ******-lover we’ll never be able to walk the streets of maycomb. He’s ruinin’ the family, that’s what he’s doing”(110). This shows that someone being prejudice can happen in your family whether or not it’s against you. Francis was just repeating what his grandma had said. The rest of the Finch family think that Atticus shouldn’t have took the case. They think he’ll ruin the finches name because he defending Tom, when atticus is only doing what’s right no matter the outcome. Francis grow up around people that believed whites were better than blacks. He learned at a young age from his family that if a man was colored that he didn’t deserve to be treated as equally as a