Prejudice in To Kill a MockingBird

... Prejudice in To Kill a MockingBird Prejudice is a foggy window which we all look out of. It impairs not only sight, but also our thoughts and actions. When we look through the window, not everyone can see past the fog. Sometimes we see people and think they are our enemies when really they are just a little bit different then us, be they a different race or even a different sex. These prejudice views are not uncommon, even though most of the time they are wrong. To Kill a MockingBird presents many conflicting pictures of prejudice, the situations also show that prejudice can be overcome. An example of viewing things differently is when Aunt Alexandra forbid Scout to play with Walter Cunningham, a poor boy whom Scout attends school with. This is because Aunt Alexandra sees Walter and his family as poor and beneath the

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