the soldier
ISSUE OF RACIAL PREJUDICEINJUSTICE IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE TKAM TOUCHES ON MANY SOCIAL ISSUES ,THE FOREMOST BEING RACIAL INJUSTICE. MAIN VEHICLE FOR THIS – TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN FOR THE RAPE OF A WHITE GIRL. WHAT DOES HARPER LEE DO? SHE USES THE NOVEL TO ATTACK RACIAL PREJUDICE WHICH IS THE ROOT OF SUCH INJUSTICE AS WAS DONE TO TOM ROBINSON. TAKES PAINS TO REVEAL JUST HOW UNFOUNDED THESE BELIEFS ARE. HOW IS THE WHITE COMMUNITY PRESENTED? ATTICUS CALLS IT ‘MAYCOMB’S USUAL DISEASE….WHY IT IS THAT ‘REASONABLE PEOPLE GO STARK STARING MAD WHEN ANYTHING INVOLVING A NEGRO COMES UP?’ PREJUDICE IS AS OLD AS THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH. [CIVIL WAR,1861-5] ‘’ WE WERE LICKED A HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE WE STARTED ‘……. REV. SYKES SAYS ‘I AINT EVER SEEN A WHITE JURY DECIDE IN FAVOUR OF A COLOURED MAN OVER A WHITE MAN ‘…….THEREFORE PREJUDICE IS DEEPLY ROOTED.