What does Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird teach us about how people deal with issues of race and class?

In
, theare generally blind about their biases about race. The people in
Maycomb assume that Tom Robinson is guilty of having raped Mayella Ewell because Tom is a black
man and Mayella is a white woman. The people in Maycomb follow preconceived ideas about race,
and they do not stop to reconsider whether they are being fair when Tom Robinson is on trial. In
addition, people in the town are generally dismissive of people of lower classes, including the
Ewell family (though poor whites are still considered superior to blacks in the town).

However, , the author, also suggests that people can get beyond some of these biases
about race and class by examining them.tells his children,and , to consider another person's
point of viewto walk around in their shoes, metaphorically speakingbefore judging them. In this
way, he encourages them to be open-minded.