Harper Lee’s classic about “Growing up and human dignity…” is a perfect example of how our prejudice and hypocrisy may often affect our judgement. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the town of Maycomb flawlessly demonstrates these aspects in every way. Hypocritical views blinded many people in the town of Maycomb, and in turn, had an effect on different people during the course of this story. Tom Robinson, Dolphus Raymond, Boo Radley, and Atticus Finch …showed first 75 words of 946 total…

…showed last 75 words of 946 total…were still generated about him. Finally, Atticus, like Tom, was just trying to help someone and earned the reputation he did. In To Kill a MockingBird, it is without a doubt, Lee’s goal to show how prejudice the town of Maycomb is. She tries to relate the prejudice theme to our lives to get us to reflect on who we are as people, and to get us to become better people because of it.