In To Kill a Mockingbird, how does the aftermath of the children's Halloween prank provide another example of the novel's themes of prejudice and false...

On
the evening of the previous Halloween, the children of Maycomb combined their collective
strength and sneakiness to pull off a prank. Misses Tutti and Frutti (real names Sarah and
Frances) Barber live together in the only home in town with a cellar. One further key point is
that both sisters are hard of hearing.

After they go to bed, the Maycomb kids
sneak into the Barbers' home and move all of their furniture to their cellar. When the sisters
wake up and discover the "robbery," they are certain they know who has committed the
crime: Syrians.

"Da-rk they were," Miss Tutti notes. Miss Frutti
adds that "she'd know a Maycomb voice anywhere" (an interesting statement from a woman
who is hard of hearing), "and there were no Maycomb voices in that parlor." She goes
on to say that she heard them "rolling their r's all over her premises."

Of course, the sisters heard no such thing, and their home was absolutely full of young
Maycomb voices pulling off the big prank. Nevertheless, the sisters are quick to place blame on
people of color and on people who speak with a foreign accent, further showing how easily
marginalized people can be blamed for something in light of an individual's
prejudices.