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 than us, because of their color, the way they look, sex, even race. These prejudice views are not uncommon; as it was in the past it's still the same in the present. Even though most of the time they are wrong. To Kill A Mocking Bird presents many conflicting pictures of prejudice, the situations also show that prejudice can be overcome. To Kill A Mocking Bird the community believes that the black man is guilty, despite any evidence, and will stop at nothing until he is dead. The notion that blacks are less then human is despicable. The characters in this novel knew full well that the black people were no different deep down inside. They taught there children that black people were inferior. Black people were and are as good if not better, then the white people. Their brainpower was equal to the white man's. The notion that black people's soul was different, and therefore it didn't matter what happened to them, because they were all going to hell, was prevalent. .
The white people of the south in the 1930's believed that blacks had inferior minds. That idea was astonished because at that time black inventors were inventing all kinds of modern technology, like the neon light bulb. Black people were not inferior to the white they just didn't have the advantages of a good education. If anything they were smarter because they strived to learn. Black people were just as intelligent as the whites but were thought of as less because they were different. The book also made a statement that black people were hard workers, who could do anything the white people could do and sometimes do it better. The black people also did their work for less money, and they still went out of their way to help people that treated them different.
