When I read, To Kill a Mockingbird, the aspects of prejudice seem to pop up most in this story. To relate to this story we have to think about something in our life that we can relate to prejudice in the book.
My past experiences…. and present experiences have a lot to do with school, and the different “clicks” in the story. It could be considered prejudice when people are categorized by the people or the different groups they hang out with. You have the popular kids, or otherwise the jocks.. who seem to get the reputation of being snotty, jerks, and judgemental people that think they are perfect. They also can be labeled as daddy’s girls… or the rich kids that get to spend daddy’s money. There is also the nerdy groups, which they are like the smart kids, that are bookworms and no life.
Many people don’t realize it but, this is getting just as bad as racism. It seems like a small issue, but many people don’t realize how big of an issue it is. This can connect with Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson in the story, because Tom Robinson is a victim of racism, as to Boo Radley, who is a victim of prejudice, where he is labeled a bad person, because he doesn’t come out of his house.. even though no one really understands. They just seem to make up things about him, which the children pick up on and pass it along to other people. This is how prejudice starts.. with something small that gets passed on and manipulated and twisted until it is made into something big and and unaccepted into normal life.
