Stereotypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

With a world of people entitled to a variety of beliefs and coming from diverse backgrounds, acceptance emerges as people hurt and build up people. By nature, humans are judgemental, they all have first impressions of others without any realistic evidence. Thus, for the good of our society and the progression of it, they learn to acknowledge each other’s flaws and uniqueness. However, a line must be drawn when personal beliefs become capable of hurting those who blindly embraced the differences as well as others in their surroundings and becoming a detriment to the welfare of a community. When accepting the differences of others, people need to adopt an open mindset to the extent when harm is directed towards a community or individuals’ welfares.

A man born black or white shouldn't determine his character or innocence in a legal court, but in the case of Tom Robinson, the jury couldn't allow a black man's truth overcome a white man's accusations. Tom Robinson’s pure intentions with Mayella brought him an undeserved fatein trial where eyes diluted at him in pure disgust and scruting soley on his skin color. Because the white residents of Maycomb can not and will not accept a colored man to be anything but sinful and inferior, they damge the “one human institution (Lee 274)” where “all men are created equal (Lee 274)”. Thus, Tom Robinson captures the picturesque flaw of Maycomb’s “blind spots” and proves that with the white community’s inability to look past Tom’s racial origins, they ultimately destroyed the purpose of a legal jury system as well as allowing Tom to serve a punishment for a crime that Bob Ewell most likely committed. They allowed a guilty, alcoholic and most likely abusive man escape the law, and imprisoned an innocent black man who ultimately ran to his death knowing that no one could save him from an unjust jury verdict. Boo Radley resembled a ghost that haunted the town of Maycomb,

Being an enthusiatistic filmaker with his sights set on creating a documentary to capture the different responses people had to a question, Yoni seeks out that individuality of others and embraces their uniqueness. On the other hand, Sergei isolates himself from the rest of the world because he cannot bear the thought of social interactions due to his upbringing and cultural experiences. Because Sergei couldn’t shake himself from the constant nagging in his mind that everyone is out to hurt or take advantage of him, he cannot or moreover doesn’t know how to properly assert a situation or act towards friendly strangers such as Yoni. Thus, though it is understandable that Sergei grew cautious over the years due to the life he had back in Russia with the KGB always breathing on the necks of his family, his overly guarded walls came crashing down against him when he couldn’t see a person to have anything but bad intentions. Sergei demonstrates how one must hold an objective view to be to accept others. Therefore, while taking cautionary measures to ensure that one does not get bitten by his or her nonchalant acceptance of others, complete rejection and building up defensive walls also results in downfall and despair as