"Good literature substitutes for an experience that which we have not yet experienced." A well written piece of literature allows the readers to be part of an event that they would never have been a part of. This quote is true. In the novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, Scout shows the reader what prejudice was like in the 1930's South. The semi autobiographical novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel shows about how one can loose his faith in a concentration camp.

A real sense of prejudice was shown to the readers of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird. The main character, Scout witnessed prejudice towards many different people. Tom Robinson, a black man, was accused of raping a white girl; the white jury still found him guilty even though they knew that Bob Ewell, the girl's father, really did it. Also, there was...