A Time Of Prejudice

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her adventures.
Every summer, the boy next door comes to visit his aunt. His name is Dill. Jem, Scout and Dill, as children, find their daily childish pleasure in harassing the most mysterious character in the book Boo Radley. As Scout would say, “He went out at night when the moon was down and peeped into peoples’ windows.” Later they found out that that was obviously untrue; they were just uneducated about Boo.
In the book, Atticus, whom I might add is a well-respected lawyer in Maycomb, defends the case of a black man; Tom Robinson who is no doubt innocent, but due to racist white peoples’ thinking – no matter what – is felt to be guilty. In this book it shows how people are uneducated about Tom as well Boo Radley. People are judging them by what other people say about them.
Everywhere you look in this book, you will see prejudice. Not in just race, but in class and sex. All through the novel Scout, as a tomboy, grows up in her words, “to become a lady.” Because this ...

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