TO_KILL_A_MOCKINGBIRD_ESSAY

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is more about prejudice than simply racism”. Discuss making reference to specific characters and events to support your answer. Just as it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, so is it to act with a prejudiced attitude. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, prejudice was encountered throughout the story as racial, social, or even a rare complete lack of prejudice. These three degrees of prejudice, appear …

…Mockingbird by Harper Lee, however there is also a lot of prejudice that has absolutely no ties with race. There are several forms of prejudice that come from many people’s narrow-mindedness. Boo Radley and the Finch family were just two examples that were judged, not by race, but simply by fear alone. The entire prejudiced attitudes of the town of Maycomb County were based on traditional ideas that had to be changed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**