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    want‚ if you can hit ’em‚ but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’"That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something‚ and I asked Miss Maudie about it."’Your father’s right‚’ she said. ’Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’" - Atticus This relates to the text throughout the

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    Prejudice and Tolerance.” By Elizabeth Cassar‚ Laura Furze‚ and Angelica Newbond During the 1930’s depression‚ there was a great divide between black and white America. There were many communities and groups who had been exposed to the same treatment and persecution as the Negroes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee has used a small town setting‚ such as that in To Kill a Mockingbird‚ to illustrate America’s views on white supremacy and the inferiority of the black race. The author has illustrated

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    Gender Prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird Every society throughout history has their own differences in gender prejudice. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the town of Maycomb has a strong influence of gender prejudice. Scout‚ a six year old girl‚ doesn’t feel the need at act like a “normal” girl. The people in Maycomb often judge her for her tomboy lifestyle‚ of wearing overalls‚ playing with the boys‚ and her “boyish haircut”. Scout is defiant and is set against maturing into the standards

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    How does prejudice affect how people treat others? In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ a southern town called Maycomb is filled with prejudice. The story is set in the 1930s‚ a heavily racist time. Scout and Jem‚ the main characters‚ can see how prejudice affects how people treat each other. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how people judge each other without knowing what they’ve experienced through characters‚ events‚ and setting. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ characters judged each other

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    Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice is a major theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. In fact‚ much of the novel is made up of events based on prejudice. One such event‚ and perhaps the most important and major event in this book‚ is the trial of Tom Robinson. Tom has been accused of raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white woman. The truth is that Mayella‚ who has never kissed a man before‚ actually came on to Tom and was caught by her father. He became enraged and beat her. He then fabricated a story

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    Although the children in the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ may not have understood what it meant to be prejudiced until the end‚ Harper Lee uses this theme in the way of racism‚ social class‚ and sexism to show that before people judge each other‚ they need to look at the situation through the other person’s eyes. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Lee focuses on the theme of racial prejudice towards blacks in the town of Maycomb to show how they were being treated by the white majority. The second

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    While examining the term‚ "the end of innocence"‚ Scout’s viewpoint on Boo throughout the novel can be an indication of Scout’s own "end of innocence." <br> <br>Scout opens the novel with a naive viewpoint on both the world and Boo Radley. At the start of the novel‚ Scout interprets a raiding on the jail‚ through an adolescent standpoint. Scout sees the circumstances of the attack from the perspective of a young child. Scout’s responses to situations‚ such as the one at the jail‚ attributes to the

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Intro:Have you ever heard the word prejudice?Prejudice is an opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.In the book To KIll a Mockingbird their is alot of racism and prejudice‚some people belive that the book is not a good piece of literature I belive the opposite and I will tell you why. To Kill a Mockingbird is good literature because I believe that it successfully impacted me emotionally‚also that the content is very believable.During the time the book was

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    Prejudice is a Wreckingball Tom Robinson is a no good person‚ he is a person of great sins‚ believes everybody in Maycomb except the Finches.The city of Maycomb is filled with lower/middle class citizens who all have these preconceived ideas about everyone else in the community.This eventually creates a lot of drama about everything that happens. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird she portrays the idea that the weight of prejudice weighs down on you the more you grow up; this becomes clear

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    To Kill a Mocking Bird “Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking” My considered opinion of this novel in the light of this comment. If Harper Lee had limited her portrayal of prejudice and discrimination merely to the trial of Tom Robinson‚ a victim of the most virulent form of racial prejudice‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird” would probably be little more than a historical footnote. Wisely‚ though‚ Lee manages

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