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How is prejudice represented in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’?In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, there are three types of prejudice shown. These are:• Gender Prejudice• Racial Prejudice• Social Class Prejudice The main reasons for prejudice are ignorance, environment, religion and jealousy. Prejudice is treating someone differently because of the way there are, such as race, gender, age, social class etc, prejudice can also be shown if someone has a disability.1) Gender Prejudice is shown throughout the book as Scout was ridiculed for not acting lady-like. The Evidence to Support this is:Scout always wore overalls and refused to wear dresses or anything girly unless forced to. When she wore a dress, Jem accused her of being ‘too much like a girl’ yet Aunt Alexandra accuses her of not being enough of a girl.Aunt Alexandra says to Scout in one chapter, "We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence”. Scout likes being a tomboy and Aunt Alexandra is trying to change her so that she is a lady.She also expects Scout to play with stoves, tea sets, and necklaces. On page 221, Atticus says that women are not allowed to serve on juries in Alabama. Atticus says that the court would never get a complete a case with women on the jury Scout Scrapbooking because women would interrupt to ask questions. Scout feels as if she is being pulled in two different directions by Jem and her Aunt Alexandra.2) Another type of prejudice was Social Class prejudice. The evidence to support this is:When Aunt Alexandra, Atticus's sister who is living with the Finchs’, tells Scout that she can't play with Walter Cunningham. Walter goes to Scout's school and he is very poor, but Scout still wants to be Walter’s friend.Aunt Alexandra calls Walter ‘trash’ just because the Cunningham's are not like the Finch's. Another example is the way the people in Maycomb treat the Ewells. The Ewells are poor white people who live amongst Negroes. Many people disrespect them as Atticus says, "The Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations" Even though the Ewells are dirty horrible people, they are treated better than the Robinson's just because they are white. 3) In the book there is also Racial Prejudice.The evidence to support this is:Attics Finch, who is Scout and Jem’s father and a lawyer agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Atticus’ decision to represent Tom Robinson resulted in Scout being verbally abused by the neighborhood. For example, when Mrs. Dubose says, "Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for", this is showing that just because Atticus is standing up for Tom Robinson he is being criticized. This prejudice resulted in Tom Robinson being jailed for a crime he didn’t commit, because the jury believed a white woman who was lying over a good gentle Negro. The Radleys also suffer social prejudice because they keep themselves to themselves. At the start of the book, Jem and Scout discover that Boo Radley , Nathan’s son, had once stabbed his father in the leg using scissors while he was scrapbooking. This makes the children nervous and not want to go near the Radley House. At the end of the novel, Boo Radley reveals himself and turns out to be a good man.ConclusionIn Conclusion, throughout the novel, people who are of different race, social class, and gender are treated differently than to people supposedly better than them.For example, when something bad happens, a finger always gets pointed at a black man or someone of a lower class. Tom Robinson was singled out and accused of something that he never did just because he was a Negro and everyone believed a white person over a Negro. Aunt Alexandra was also very biased towards Calpurnia because she was black and lower than her. She was also biased towards Walter Cunningham because he was very poor and didn’t want any of her family socialising with Walter.
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