Racism is an important subject in ‘To kill a mocking bird’ describe the differing attitudes of three or more characters and examine what you think Harper Lee has to say about racism both in Maycomb county and more generally Scout is totally without prejudice against most of Maycombs people including the black people. She manages to show adults that racism isn’t right, for example at the county jail where the men seem to suddenly …showed first 75 words of 361 total…

…showed last 75 words of 361 total…Ewell in the same way as Atticus is. I think Harper Lee uses Scout as a way of voicing her own opinion on racism. She thinks people should not judge by the colour of a person’s skin or their ‘history’. They should take them as they are just like Scout learns to from Atticus when he says ‘you don’t really know a person until you get up and walk around in there skin’.