" `...Jem, I think there's one kind of folks. Folks.' `That's what I thought too,' he said at last, `when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other"...I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside.' "

Prejudice has always been around. Though it doesn't always shows itself in the same way, it's always there, whether it is directed towards economical or political status, or the simple gender and racial biases so common in the time that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was set. We know this, and Scout and most of her community knew it too. The difference between Scout and...