In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout was exposed numerous times to the outwardly prejudice people of Maycomb Co., Alabama.         These prejudices are separated into what I would consider three catagories: race, sex, and lifestyle discriminations. The most prominent being the racial descrimination, which as Harper Lee pointed out, was not just limited to the cacausion population of Maycomb. One of these instinces was when Lula commented on Finch children coming …showed first 75 words of 547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 547 total…was also subject to this type of prejudice because of the fact that her father was defending, and therefore mingling, with a black person.         I believe that without such contraversial issues the story would have not truely achieved the level of realisticity and validity that Harper Lee was able reach. And also without them we would have been unable to see who was truly a good at heart character and who was a low life.