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Scout and Jems treatment of Boo Radley is just one example of prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird Discuss. ... Atticus does not want Scout and Jem to admire and encourage violence. ... I think Atticus was too idealistic here, because he misjudges the extent of Bob Ewells hatred, he also hoped that the racial problem in Maycomb could be solved by tolerance, which was perhaps a little idealistic. ... These ideas that the people of Maycomb have of each other are not just deep racial prejudice but they are intolerant and rigid behaviour, which they wish to impose on each other.
People such as Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond and Maudi Atkinson are picked on and discouraged because they do not fit in with the other people of Maycomb. ... Arthur (Boo) Radley is just one example of prejudice in the novel. ... Scout and Jem think of Boo Radley as a horrible person just because they have heard rumours, but Boo gradually emerges as a very different person from the one Scout and Jem imagined him to be because he was very kind and shy and he even left presents for Scout and Jem in the tree. ... He showed these qualities in the trial by speaking his mind and saying the truth, but this still was not enough to sway the jury into returning the right verdict of Not Guilty. ... Black people were not allowed to feel sorry for white people; it was as if Tom was found guilty in order to teach him his place. ... The children had not yet become aware of the racial prejudice in Maycomb; Scout did not understand that in terms of status, all Negroes are regarded as being lower even then the Ewells. ... They might have understood him because they had not yet been contaminated by prejudice. ... I agree with Scout in saying this and I feel that Atticus would support her in saying this.
When the people of Maycomb received the news of Toms death I noticed that the repetition of the word typical demonstrated how easily they slotted the death into their own preconceived ideas about Negroes, no matter what Tom did in there minds he had no human dignity. ... Scout and Jems treatment of Boo Radley was just one of them.
Approximate Word count = 1850
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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