Examples Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird
Prejudice
Prejudice is no foreign matter to any of us. Prejudice is easy to see, subsequently making it an easy subject to write on because of the surplus of examples. However, there is a second layer of prejudice that many people don’t think of. Prejudice is one recurring theme that can be found in absolutely every unit we’ve covered this semester. It present in The absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird, Defiance, Schindler’s List, and The Merchant of Venice. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, there is some very obvious prejudice taking place. The main character Junior receives the butt end of a lot of prejudice. He attends a white school where not many people like him, or even know what to think of him. As a result, he is ignored, insulted and beat up. The kids at school call him racist names, like Chief. He’s beaten by students. The teachers even treat him …show more content…
Tom Robinson, is a black man convicted of rape. Everyone thinks of the black man as guilty. Why? Because he’s black, and for nothing more than that. Everyone just assumes Tom is guilty. No one stops and bothers to look at the facts until Atticus points them out. Even though everyone should be equal in court, it is not that way. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom,” said Atticus (Lee 295). Tom Robinson is convicted, but Atticus tells him to wait, and he will try to get an appeal. Jem is unbelieving that they could convict him after all of the evidence that Atticus provided. He asks how they could convict Tom and Atticus replies, ¨I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep” (Lee 213). This really shows how the children see that this is wrong, but the adults are so brainwashed with prejudice that they think it’s perfectly
Prejudice is no foreign matter to any of us. Prejudice is easy to see, subsequently making it an easy subject to write on because of the surplus of examples. However, there is a second layer of prejudice that many people don’t think of. Prejudice is one recurring theme that can be found in absolutely every unit we’ve covered this semester. It present in The absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, To Kill a Mockingbird, Defiance, Schindler’s List, and The Merchant of Venice. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, there is some very obvious prejudice taking place. The main character Junior receives the butt end of a lot of prejudice. He attends a white school where not many people like him, or even know what to think of him. As a result, he is ignored, insulted and beat up. The kids at school call him racist names, like Chief. He’s beaten by students. The teachers even treat him …show more content…
Tom Robinson, is a black man convicted of rape. Everyone thinks of the black man as guilty. Why? Because he’s black, and for nothing more than that. Everyone just assumes Tom is guilty. No one stops and bothers to look at the facts until Atticus points them out. Even though everyone should be equal in court, it is not that way. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom,” said Atticus (Lee 295). Tom Robinson is convicted, but Atticus tells him to wait, and he will try to get an appeal. Jem is unbelieving that they could convict him after all of the evidence that Atticus provided. He asks how they could convict Tom and Atticus replies, ¨I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep” (Lee 213). This really shows how the children see that this is wrong, but the adults are so brainwashed with prejudice that they think it’s perfectly