To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of Prejudice

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they don't know each other,
and they don't know each other because
they are often separated from each other. "
-Martin Luther King


The stereotypes in this novel are fairly common but the fact that they
are accepted and used so openly in public is what astonishes me. I think people
in the community, even if they do disagree with what is being said or done,
they will say or do nothing because they are afraid of going against the
majority of the community and become a victim of prejudice themselves. Atticus
was one of the few who actually stopped and listened to himself without being
biased by the views and opinions of the rest of the town. He then had the
courage to stand up and take prejudice himself for trying to correct the
prejudice against a black man, and prove his innocence.

"Scout, you aren't old enough to understand some things yet, but
there's been some high talk around ...

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Caroline, he's a Cunningham."
I sat back down.
"What, Jean Louise?"

I thought I had made things sufficiently clear. It was clear enough to
the rest of us: Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off. He
didn't forget his lunch, he didn't have any. He had none today nor would he
have any tomorrow or the next day. He had probably never seen three
quarters together at the same time in his life.

I tried again: "Walter's one of the Cunninghams, Miss Caroline."
"I beg your pardon, Jean Louise?"
"That's okay, ma'am, you'll get to know all the county folks after a
while. The Cunninghams never took anything they can't pay back-no
church baskets... "
...

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