Prejudice: Social and Racial Conflicts in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Title: Prejudice: Social and Racial Conflicts in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 998 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Prejudice: Social and Racial Conflicts in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 998 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Prejudice today seems as something people say by accident: without knowing what the dangers of the words leaving their mouth would cause. Playing ball at a local park a kid yells to his teammate who just struck out, "stop playing like a girl" making it seem as though it is an insult to be a girl, another example: while talking to your brother who is on the computer, you notice him listening to Coldplay and
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or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." (220).
To Conclude; Prejudice, the main theme of this novel, was expressed racially, and socially. To Kill a Mockingbird refers not only to the scene where Atticus explains that killing a mockingbird is a sin, but also to the characters in the story, who were persecuted for being racially, sexually, or ethnically different from everyone else, who could be referred to as mockingbirds.