Explore how the theme of prejudice is conveyed in "To Kill A Mockingbird"

To Kill A Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee, and is set in the Deep South of the thirties. Lee was herself born and raised in Alabama, so she would have had direct experience of the situation she writes of in the novel. Although it does not deal with civil rights as such - for example, the right to vote - it is greatly concerned with the humanity of those who lived in such a …

…reaction was purely inhuman. Throughout the story, I found that the ignorance and fear of a group can lead to the discrimination of individuals who don't deserve to be persecuted at the hands of someone else's lack of understanding. The prejudice and bigotry that comes across so often in the story can cause this terrible victimisation of people with differences, when it is the majority of society who have the problem of intolerance and injustice.