Review of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"

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.

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One of these times would be when Francais states, "I guess it ain't your fault if Uncle

Atticus is nigger lover"(83). And although Scout didn't 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 don't 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...