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Prejudice is a horrible and unfair thing, but unfortunately, almost everyone has experienced it at some time in their life. It’s a main theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. Almost everyone has judged someone before getting to know them; the people of Maycomb seemed to do it all the time. There is prejudice throughout the whole story. In Maycomb, everyone had heard stories of “Boo” Radley. Children feared him; most adults tried not to speak of him too much, but no one actually knew him. The children in Maycomb thought he was a viscous monster, a man with a scar on his head and bloody hands and who ate cats and squirrels. The adults thought he was crazy, and that they kept him in that house because he killed his father with scissors. People were afraid to even go near the Radley house because of what they thought lived inside of it. No one knew that in reality, Arthur “Boo” Radley was not a monster, just a man that never really grew up and didn’t like to be in public too much. In the 1930’s, where To Kill a Mockingbird was set, it was not considered “proper” for a young lady to dress in overalls and partici