In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author, Harper Lee, tells about the attitudes toward race and class of people in the Deep South during the 1930s. It seems that everyone is prejudiced against something or someone because they do not understand where that person is coming from and why they think the way they do. Prejudice in any form is wrong. A person should learn about people who are different in order to understand them. Racial prejudice is one of the types of prejudice in this novel. The white people do not care for the colored people and the colored people do not care for the whites. Another form of prejudice in this novel is class prejudice. A third form of prejudice is against women.

Racial prejudice between whites and African American people is strong in this novel. The African Americans are segregated from the whites...