Knowledge in To Kill a Mockingbird

experience impart forever g everywheren ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must beef up themselves with the power which knowledge gives (Madison). Knowledge brings immense power as it is able to avoid the ignorance pose by society. This ignorance has been a long issue from slavery until now. some 60 years later the abolition of slavery, severe racial segregation continued to invite place in the South. During then, the vast Depression resulted in a period of poverty and unemployment that was quickly followed by the Scottsboro Trials in 1931, in which nine boys were rancidly convicted of rape. These false accusations were formed by the racial impairment as African- Americans were commonly looked vote out upon. This injustice is the inspiration of the plot and theme of Harper leewards novel, To Kill a Mockingbird where main protagonists Jem and emissary experience the prejudice that occurs in the fictional town, Maycomb County. The two along with t heir friend, Dill Harris, first mobilize Boo Radley while he secretly communicates with them while Calpurnia and genus Atticus t each(prenominal) them lessons. Their father, Atticus, receives a unfermented case to defend the falsely convicted Tom Robinson for rape. Bob Ewell attacks Jem and sentry but Boo Radley kills him to hold dear the child. With this in mind, Harper lee(prenominal) states that prejudice results from the ignorance of society, but the source is the empathy that arises from knowledge.\nThe prejudgment of others is inevitable and prejudice dots due to differences in draw and gender. Prejudice is easily spread so when Scout asks Mrs. Maudie wherefore she must kill each weed, Mrs. Maudie replies, Why one sprig of nutsedge can ruin a whole yard step here When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County! (Lee 42). The nutgrass symbolizes prejudice because it is outcaste but also requisite just as how prejudice is unwanted and damaging and soon enough it is always present. It onl...