Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

The book To Kill A Mockingbird can be about many things, all depending on how you understand it. The main theme is prejudice because no matter where you look in the book you are sure to find some sort of prejudice. Everybody looks down on the blacks and automatically looks down on the white people who talk to or try to help them. Just like how they all look down on and make fun of Atticus because he is helping Tom Robinson and his family. Another big form of prejudice is between men and woman. The men think that they are the only ones who can work while the women should stay at home and take care of the kids and be the housewife. The Men would also expect to come home to complete silence and a warm fresh cooked meal everyday. There is also
prejudice with the kids and the adults and the adults not telling the kids things. Like when the neighbors and everyone keep telling Scout she is too little to understand what they are talking about. There is also some prejudice within Jem, Scout, and Dill. Sometimes Dill only wants to play with Jem because Scout is a girl, and or because she is younger than them. Meanwhile other times they all play really good together and get along well.