Examples Of Social Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee, the novel portrays examples of racial and social prejudice through the way mankind acts towards other people without even thinking. Within the book, Harper Lee raises awareness about racial, social prejudice and Loss of Innocence by the way people act towards African Americans and How children learn during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Throughout the novel written by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird presents many examples of racism. In maycomb county, the majority of the citizens believe that the white race is superior against the black race. This can be seen when Atticus said, “She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she

kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards”(336). When Atticus is questioning Mayella during the trial, It is seen that the white race is exceptional over the black race, because when Atticus is announcing these words, It shows that the town of maycomb is racist as shown when Atticus says, “She did something that in our society is unspeakable”, which means what Mayella did is monstrous in her home town. Another example that shows the county of maycomb is racist when mrs.Dubose says, “When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!”(172). When Scout and Jem were passing mrs. Dubose’s house, mrs.Dubose's shows the personalities of the rest of the neighbors of maycomb by saying that phrase. The provided evidence is clearly show that the white race is superior over the black race in the town of maycomb. Harper Lee is showing awareness about racism by turning the county of maycomb racist by the way white people talk about blacks people and by the trial of Tom Robinson.
Written by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, shows abounding examples of social prejudice.

The citizens of maycomb country show social prejudice by the unjustified attitude towards an individual based on the individual's membership in a family or group. When Jem observes scout on the bed she says, “There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes”(374). The statement that Jem says about the separation of herself and the neighbors with the Cunninghams, Ewells, and the Negroes, shows the social prejudice of the town of maycomb. The age that children think that shows that the social diversity of people in maycomb is awful. Lastly, when Atticus is speaking with a finch he states, “You, Miss Scout Finch, are the common folk. You must obey the law.” He said that the Ewells were members of an exclusive society made up of Ewell's. In certain circumstances the common folk judiciously allowed them certain privileges by the simple method of becoming blind to some of the Ewells’

activities”
(53). The phrase that Atticus said shows the social prejudice of the people of maycomb because it is clearly seen that certain people are the “Common folks” and most people like the Cunninghams and the Ewells are the divided ones. Harper Lee shows awareness of social prejudice throughout the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by the way people separate because of the family or social class.
In the novel written by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird shows countless examples of loss in innocence.

Scout, Jem, and Dill have to deal with the conflict of having to experience new things as they grow up.Harper Lee also shows the good and evil in people and how the children learn and mature and to recognize human nature. In the the novel it reads, “Jack! When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em”(146). The current quote shows the loss of innocence in the novel because the adult doesn't answer the children's questions. Children learn the from older adults by asking questions, that's what children do, if they don't ask questions then they won't learn anything in life. When Miss Maudie answers Jem’s question about “it's a sin to do something” and Miss Maudie replied with “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”(152). The lost of innocence is shown in this quote by the way Jem says “I asked Miss Maudie about it” , that means that Jem wants answers as a child, without asking that question to Miss Maudie, Jem would've never learned about the mockingbird and why it's a sin to kill one. Harper Lee shows awareness in her

novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by the way Scout, Jem and Dill ask questions about life, without questions they will never learn about the world they live in.
In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Harper Lee raises awareness about racism , social prejudice and Loss of innocence, from the trial of Tom Robinson to the killing of Bob Ewell It is proven that Harper Lee wanted her readers to learn about the separations of people during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and by the way Loss of innocence is extremely important by the way Scout, Jem and Dill learn throughout their experience of racism and social prejudice.