To Kill A Mockingbird Prejudice Quotes Analysis

Prejudice is a Wreckingball Tom Robinson is a no good person, he is a person of great sins, believes everybody in Maycomb except the Finches.The city of Maycomb is filled with lower/middle class citizens who all have these preconceived ideas about everyone else in the community.This eventually creates a lot of drama about everything that happens. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird she portrays the idea that the weight of prejudice weighs down on you the more you grow up; this becomes clear to readers the Finches, and others are forced to deal with exclusion and hatred from the people of Maycomb.

During the progression of To Kill A Mockingbird Jem and Scout don’t only grow physically they also grow mentally. In this scene Scout is forced to take the higher ground and walk away from a fight with Cecil Jacobs. “I was far too old and too big for such childish things and the sooner I learned to hold it in the better off I would be”(94). This taught us that scout respects her father's word and even though scout will have to deal with the ridicule of backing down from the fight,but scout will know that she did the right thing. Lee is trying to teach that your morale’s only become more true and accurate as you get older. Eventually this will reveal your true idea’s and beliefs. This next quote exposes how prejudice isn’t always people's actions, it can also be
Growing heavier and stronger with every breath you take. Eventually the child will be to heavy to carry and it will take over your life choices and influence all of you thoughts and actions. “Prejudice is a learned trait. You’re not born prejudice; you’re taught it.”- Charles R.Swindell. This quote perfectly describes almost everyone else in maycomb because they all have these preconceived ideas about everyone and if they just took a minute to speak without everyone else’s voices and words in their head they would make honest true