The famous Edward R. Murrow once said: "Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices just recognize them." The world would love nothing more than to erase the atrocities of Hitler, the segregation of the American South, and the cruelty conflicted on innocent women of the Middle East during the reign of Suddam Hussein. The simple recognition of these injustices is the only insurance that history will not repeat itself. Murrow's words flow side by side with the theme of Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Her novel reveals the fact that prejudice, of any kind is a sin. By examining a variety of literary elements and techniques Lee's theme of prejudice becomes clear to the reader.

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. The youngest of four children, Lee was a "rough...