'Don't talk like that in from of them'
__After Atticus mentions that Mr Braxton Underwood despises Negroes at the table during breakfast, Aunt Alexandra waits for Calpurnia to go into the kitchen and explains that she doesn't want Atticus to talk about those thing in front of Calpurnia. Harper Lee implies here that she wishes to hide the town's racial prejudices behind a veneer of polite conversation.
The most obvious form of prejudice in the novel is racism, which causes otherwise upstanding white citizens of Maycomb to accept the testimony of an obviously corrupt white man over the evidence supporting the testimony from a black man. Yet prejudice is also visible in Aunt Alexandra’s and many other character’s belief in the importance of social class, in the gender stereotypes that people try to force on Scout and even in the way the town views Boo Radley as a monster because he acts differently from everyone else.
These other visions are all quite different from each other. They are religious, racist, but they all share one thing in common. They treat people as groups, demand conformity, and give no respect or credit to individuals. In other words, they are all forms of prejudice, which is a preconceived notion about a person based on the groups to which that person belongs. Over and over again, To Kill a Mockingbird reveals prejudice not just as closed-minded and dangerous, but also as ridiculous.
The most obvious form of prejudice in the novel is racism, which causes otherwise upstanding white citizens of Maycomb to accept the testimony of an obviously corrupt white man over the evidence supporting the testimony from a black man. Yet prejudice is also visible in Aunt Alexandra’s and many other character’s belief in the importance of social class, in the gender stereotypes that people try to force on Scout and even in the way the town views Boo Radley as a monster because he acts differently from everyone else.
These other visions are all quite different from each other. They are religious, racist, but they all share one thing in common. They treat people as groups, demand conformity, and give no respect or credit to individuals. In other words, they are all forms of prejudice, which is a preconceived notion about a person based on the groups to which that person belongs. Over and over again, To Kill a Mockingbird reveals prejudice not just as closed-minded and dangerous, but also as ridiculous.