Despite his clear innocence, a black man is tried unjustly and decreed guilty because of his different skin color. The townspeople blame the causes of bad incidents on a blameless recluse because of his different lifestyle. A teacher mistreats her student because she is different from other students. All of these problems and conflicts share a common root: close-mindedness. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee condemns this close-mindedness, the intolerance of differences within others, …showed first 75 words of 640 total…

…showed last 75 words of 640 total…physical fight with him. Close-mindedness is destructive. It arouses conflicts and fights among people and results in a victim and his/her emotional wound. When Harper Lee, wrote this book, such close-mindedness was prevalent in the South. Since she was a very advanced person, she had different ideas and considered it destructive and harmful to society. Recognizing these devastating results of close-mindedness, she did not hesitate to denounce it and question the validity of it.