The Data Analysis Technique

45 people in Maycomb County always assess persons from what family they come from. Racial prejudice also happens in black people’s life. They accept racial prejudices from white people that cause many problems in society. The climax is when Atticus as Maycomb attorney is advocating an Afro-American, Tom Robinson. However, there are many white people do not agree with Atticus, because he accepts and wants to defend a black man. Tom is accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, but no evidence that says Tom has done it. After the jurors makes verdict that Tom is guilty, Atticus and his family get some terrors from Mayella’s father, Bob Ewell. He tries to kill Scout and Jem in Halloween night. Yet, they can be saved by a man who is supposed to be the most dangerous person in society. He is Boo Radley. Prejudiced people cannot view someone or group in objective perspective, because they have had negative judgment toward others and it occurs for long time. Actually, people cannot value another people before understanding them clearly. When someone wants to know how other people live, they have to get along with them firstly, because they cannot evaluate someone from meeting at glance. Yet, when prejudice is kept in somebody’s or group’s mind strongly toward somebody else, they will not be able to think or determine logically. It can attack someone or group that are not guilty, because people often prejudice toward others due to irrational reasons. 46 Harper Lee has clearly given descriptions about racial prejudice in her novel. There are some victims who get racial prejudice from the other people in society; it is experienced not only by black people but also the whites. There are many evidences that can describe racial prejudice in Lee’s novel as follow:

1. Racial Prejudice Against Other Families

“Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in window. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker’s Eddy, people still looked at The Radley Place unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.” Lee:10 The sentences above have explained people’s prejudice toward Radleys especially Arthur or Boo Radley. That is alien thing in Maycomb County, because people never do that, which is not Maycomb’s style. Therefore, most of people in Maycomb society gives label to Boo Radley that he is dangerous man in society. They think all of crimes in that county are Boo’s works, despite they do not know the fact is. In that quotation, mentioned that people cannot wipe out their suspicious against Boo Radley, even though they have known who does the crimes in Maycomb. That is like what Perry 2003:173 said that