Prejudice is any preconceived feeling or opinion favourable or unfavourable towards a certain group of people. The discrimination caused by prejudice results in this certain group being attacked verbally or physically. In the novel `To Kill a Mockingbird', Harper Lee uses different writing styles and techniques to show the reader how unfairly blacks were treated. Other sources like the movie `Philadelphia' directed by Jonathon Demme and `Blood Out of a Stone', a cartoon strip by Leunig, helped me understand prejudice and discrimination better by visualising situations where prejudice and discrimination are, and focusing on the issue in a dramatic way.

Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird" was published in 1960. She was writing at significant time during a period of racial change and relations. Just after the Second World War, movements for equality and freedom gained enough strength and momentum to make Negros stand up...