The Role Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

In literature throughout history, authors have used literary devices to depict characters exhibiting prejudice to a certain person or people group. Harper Lee shows that those who are affected by prejudice can decide to accept or stand against it. The character who best represents this in To Kill A Mockingbird is Tom Robinson, he is accused of rape and beating a white woman. This yet alone does not stop him from standing up against the fact that he is innocent. Also, due to many of the children being raised, that they are above black people; causes them to execute many things that are unjust and prejudice. However, the life that Tom Robinson has lived and the oppression because of his color, causes the reader to believe that he is innocent. So, Throughout Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, the use of symbolism furthers the theme that prejudice actions generate the chastisement of the innocent.

During To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee reveals that people in Maycomb believed that it was perverse to abide with black people and to marry one. So when Mr. Raymond would walk through town “weaving and
When Tom Robinson was accused of rape he was taken to court to be tried, there he spent the remainder jail free part of his life. When the jury came in to deliver the verdict they did not look at Tom Robinson, so this made everyone think he was not guilty because, “A jury never looks at a defendant if it’s convicted” (282). But when Judge Taylor was “polling the jury guilty… guilty…. guilty and guilty” (282) this led to the sad fate of Tom Robinson. Tom represents the Mockingbird because, he did not do anything harmful but try to help people. Through these events Lee uses what Atticus said about “it being a sin to kill a Mockingbird” (119) to represent innocence through Tom Robinson