Prejudice is a foggy window which we all look out of. It impairs
not only sight, but also our thoughts and actions. When we look through
the window, not everyone can see past the fog. Sometimes we see people and
think they are our enemies when really they are just a little bit different
then us, be they a different race or even a different sex. These prejudice
views are not uncommon, even though most of the time they are wrong. "To
Kill a MockingBird" presents many conflicting pictures of prejudice, the
situations also show that prejudice can be overcome.
An example of viewing things differently is when Aunt Alexandra
forbid Scout to play with Walter Cunningham, a poor boy whom Scout attends
school with. This is because Aunt Alexandra sees Walter and his family as
poor and beneath the Finches, in her words," ...they're good folks. But
they're not our kind of folks."
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Scout and Sophie
English: Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (unive...Scout on the other hand doesn't care about
how much money Walter has but about his potential to be a friend. She
doesn't let irrelevant things like money cloud her judgment of people.
The most typical of all prejudice views is that of race. An
example of this is during Tom Robinsons trial. Tom was a black man accused
of raping a white woman, a crime that is punishable by the death penalty.
Even though all the facts proved that he didn't do it, the jury still found
him guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". Tom's life has been sacrificed to
racism by the people who were there to protect him. The justice system
didn't allow this man to have a fair trial because of the color of his skin.
They disregarded his credibility or that of the other witnesses, all they
could focus on...