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Prejudices in Society and Law Society Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird uses crowds to help develop its theme. The townspeople, represented how people go in favor of the more popular side. Most people will go on this side because the benefits will go to the people. They can also fear that having a different opinion will make a bad impression of themselves. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, the townspeople's narrow-mindedness didn't allow them to …

…the novel to be a story of injustice: injustice to a decent black man and his family, injustice to a lawyer and his family. By making the mockingbird image dominant in her work, she showed that prejudice is a part of our inherent nature, to fear the unknown, to dislike those who are unlike us. To strive to beat this will make us part of an enlightened society. Or does that take too much effort?