To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. On the real place and people. Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. The people of Monroeville and other places in the South America recognised themselves and the situation.
Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, contains many prevalent themes. Jean Louise Finch, commonly called Scout, lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s, where she narrates the prejudices that she learns at a young age from other people. In this novel Scout perceives a different outlook on life from most other children her age regarding social, racial, and sexual prejudices. Because the townspeople of Maycomb show social prejudice against citizens who are different.
Prejudice is a judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known. In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird there are various types of prejudice such as racism, sexism, classism and ageism. Everyone is created equal even though we are all different. People should respect our differences rather than intolerate them. There is a lot of racial tension in Maycomb county. The white people are angry and non- understanding towards Atticus, when he takes the case of Tom Robinson. .