To Kill A Mockingbird Racial Prejudice

Have you ever been prejudiced to others, or ever been looked at differently because you were a different race or of a different religion? Being different is always unacceptable to some people, but to others it is the best way to go throughout life. Prejudice goes in and out of our country affecting different people and distinguishing out a large extent of them. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee demonstrates prejudice through numerous accounts of race, gender, and rich/poor with numerous accounts. Prejudice is evident through the novel in many cases of gender bias. The way you treat someone based off of certain principles, such as gender, is irrational. As the author states, “I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a
Being a Cunningham depicted the life as a poorly, ran down, and trashy person. As stated in To Kill a Mockingbird, you can scrub and giving Walter Cunningham a new suit, but he will never be like Jem (224). Many people, such as Aunt Alexandra never sought out to find out who the Cunninghams, they looked at them as they were less than anyone else, but in reality these were good and honest people. Scout never saw Walter as trash, but her aunt thought differently, saying that he---is---trash only because how he lived and dressed based on his poorness (225). Being poor throughout, To Kill a Mockingbird was shown in many variety of cases. In the text, it shows that being poor placed you as low as the negroes, but never did being human or being a great person placed you in the County of Maycomb. In To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudice is essential throughout excessive amount of race, gender, and economic status. If someone was black, poor, or a women you were despised or not compared to he or she. To conclude, never judge a book by its cover because you never know what they have been through or how their lives were when they were children. Get to know someone, be acquainted with them, and be