Racial Prejudice

Question 1

Name an example of racist attitudes?

Answer 1

• When the sherif arrested boo radley for stabbing his father with a pair of scissors the sherif said that he “didn’t have the heart to put him in the jail alongside negroes”
• or when aunt Alexandra doesn’t like to talk about important matters “in front of calpurnia or them”

Question 2

Name an example of an anti racist attitude?

Answer 2

Atticus hates the towns racist attitudes towards black people and call it “Maycomb’s usual disease”

Question 3

What is the majority of the community of maycomb’s attitudes towards black people?

Answer 3

•the majority of the White population see black people as second class citizens.

Question 4

Why is racial prejudice present?

Answer 4

Racial prejudice is present throughout the novel as it is set in the “Deep South” of America in the 1930s. Slavery’s abolishment had not occurred not long ago so people’s attitudes towards negroes had not changed despite Best efforts.

Question 5

Name an example of how racial prejudice works both ways?

Answer 5

When Lula says “you ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillun here- they got their church, we got our’n”

Question 6

First impression of calpurnia?

Answer 6

• she likes to be in charge and take the mother role
• she thinks very highly of scout
• she is very moral
• she has a strong opinion of most things but keeps it to herself