The best selling, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee is a riveting tale of life lessons. The story unfolds through the eyes of a six-year-old girl, Scout. The book concerns on the struggle against racial injustice in Maycomb, Alabama, a small town, sleepy, depression era town in the 1930s. In this powerful novel shows how people are stereotyped by their race and social class. Harper Lee has included prejudice and courage in the novel to show conflict. ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ shows many types of conflict, to show conflict Harper Lee has used symbolism and suspense.
There are two main types of prejudice in this novel, racial prejudice and social prejudice. With Maycomb being an old town, the population hasn’t change from many decades causing the community to be narrow- minded. This causes prejudice toward anything that is different from the normal. The most well know prejudice in Maycomb would be racial prejudice between the white people and the Negroes. The novel is set in the depression era were the Negroes were highly isolated from the white society, Negroes were not permitted to interacts with the white community and there were clearly distinctive areas in the town for the blacks and whites. Those who did mingle were sorely looked down upon. Throughout the novel scout explores the differences between the blacks and the white people and learns how they treat each other. The two situations of racial prejudice that stand out the most are; racism not only affects the Negroes it affects white people to, when Calpurnia takes Scout and Jem to her church, a nigger church. Scout and Jem were told to go home and stay with their own kind by a black woman. They were judged by their race. Another racial prejudice example would be in the trial of Tom Robinson. Tom is a black man accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell a crime that is punishable by the death penalty. Even though all the facts were there that Tom was innocent, the...