To Kill A Mockingbird Pride And Prejudice Analysis

To Kill A Mockingbird illustrates through prejudiced acts of avoidance and discrimination and Atticus’s attempts to teach his children to be unbiased, prejudice can be improved with positive parental guidance. Granted in this time period, Jem and Scout encounter many instances when they witness prejudice people, and the negativity towards one race in their very own homeland-Maycomb. The prejudice ladder is a scale of how severe the act is, throughout the story readers experience feelings from all parts of the ladder. One event that can represent speech from the ladder was when Lula was judging Calpurnia for bringing Jem and Scout into the church because they were of a different race. When the children walk in, Lula says, “You ain’t got no
Another event from the prejudice ladder is the organized courtroom. The blacks sat up in the balcony when everyone else was welcomed behind the tables, this separation would be an example of avoidance and discrimination. Segregation was a normal part of the daily life in this time period, from small things such as which water fountain people drink from to larger examples like where you sit in court. Separation was a usual occurrence, “The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.”(219). In the court they had the whites sit below in the seats on the floor-right behind all of the action. On the other hand, they put the blacks up top in the balcony that overlooked the room. Blacks were forced to wait to head upstairs until all white citizens were seated as well, it's like they are treated with a different level of respect. This example of the courtroom’s segregation was another prejudice act. The Finch children yet again stood up for what they believed in, which was that blacks and whites are made equal and should be able to mix and blacks