To Kill A Mocking Bird
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In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout was exposed numerous times to the outwardly prejudice people of Maycomb Co., Alabama.
These prejudices are separated into what I would consider three catagories: race, sex, and lifestyle discriminations. The most prominent being the racial descrimination, which as Harper Lee pointed out, was not just limited to the cacausion population of Maycomb. One of these instinces was when Lula commented on Finch children coming to a historically all black church. Another less prominent form of this reverse discrimination would be the fact that the african people of Maycomb tended to assume that all white people in Maycomb had a deep hatered for blacks, and so they also treated all of them as prejudiced people. But, the black population, by far was disriminated against the most. For instince the many times Scout was told her father defened niggers, and was a nigger lover. One of these times would be when Francais states, “I guess it aint your fault if Uncle Atticus is nigger lover”(83). And although Scout didnt truly know the meanings of these statements seemingly rooted into the core of many Maycomb populants, she did sense that they were not statements of reverement.
Another type of prejudice in the book would be the sexism and resulting stereotypical views of how women and men should act, dress, and what they can and cannot do. A good example of this being the many times Mrs. Dubose made statements like, “What are you doing in overalls. If you dont start acting proper you will end up serving tables”(101). What I would consider to be vast majority of this sexism was aimed at women and girls. They were constantly told what was proper and lady-like and what they should dress like to look like a lady. These so called ideals were not only reinforced and tought by men but also by women. Scout was one of the minority of people who didnt conform to these