The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is set in Maycomb County Alabama in the 1930’s. In the novel Harper Lee talks about many issues such as prejudice, courage, and growing up.

Prejudice in this novel is like a disease. Aunt Alexandra is prejudiced and her son is taught to be prejudice. He picks it up or catches it from her like an illness. Another example of prejudice is when their teacher, Miss Gates, taught the children about Hitler. She gave them the many examples of how prejudice caused such horrible things to happen to the Jews and other people from Hitler.