How does prejudice play a part in To Kill a Mockingbird (including prejudice against blacks and Boo Radley)?

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Females are still treated with kid gloves by the heavy-handed male populace. Women are not allowed to serve on Alabama juries in 1935, and most of the single females of the town--such as Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie--are regarded as suspicious crackpots. Scout is relentlessly reminded that she is unladylike. Women are portrayed primarily as gossips and housekeepers. Have you noticed that not a single woman in Maycomb is employed?

AGE. Children's rights have still not made much headway in 1930s Alabama, though Jem and Scout are certainly given more independence from their liberal-minded father than most children of Maycomb. Poor children, such as Walter Cunningham and Burris Ewell, are treated in a much different manner than others; Dill and Francis are shuttled off to their relatives for long periods of time; meanwhile, there is no mention whatsoever of black children going to school. Even the unseasonable snow is blamed on children by superstitious ...

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