Discrimination in the Book "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

Discrimination has caused pain and suffering for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee the discrimination is caused by not educated people. It means that people who are educated have the key to success because when you obtain less education you might judge people by their appearance, not how they really are.
One good example from the book occurs while Scout is frustrated by her inability to understand why her teacher acts as she does. Atticus tells her "... if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you would get a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you ... climb into his skin and walk around in it"(#30) This quotation shows the reader that you don't really know people until you put yourself in their position.…