In today's world racism is not as common as it was in 1900. In the early 1900's racism was very common and most of the population was racist towards of minorities. Although racism was common in the 1900s, it is now frowned upon and not common at all. Minorite racism in “To Kill a Mockingbird” is very common and is an important part of the story. Racism is shown by Caucasians in Maycomb against African Americans in many different ways, such as when the jury finds Tom Robinson guilty of raping Mayella Ewell. The details of Tom Robinson's rape of Mayella Ewell are very vague and do not show sufficient evidence that Mayella Ewell was raped. When the jury made up of all Caucasian men decides to vote whether Tom Robinson is guilty or not, all Dill shows an act of innocence when he asks Scout to marry him because Scout was the only girl Dill knew and he loved her. Both Scout and Dill are too young to understand what marriage really is, so they both accept it and pretend to be married. This part of the story shows how young and innocent Dill and Scout are throughout the book. An example of Scout showing her innocence in the book is when she says “I don't have to go to school! Burris Ewell, remember? He only goes to school on the first day” (30). This quote shows that Scout doesn't want to go to school and thinks that being an Ewell would be a great idea because she wouldn't have to go to school anymore. Atticus disagrees with Scout and tells her how bad it is to be an Ewell and that sometimes they have no choice whether to go to school or not. Scout understands this and decides to go to school knowing that the Ewells have horrible lives and that she is lucky to live in a nice house and not a dare in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is very hard to find because of all the prejudicial comments . and racist comments to local African Americans in the story, Atticus puts aside the differences between blacks and whites and decides to help a black man in court. This is a very important part of the book and shows a huge example of courage. In Maycomb, finding courage is extremely difficult, especially when it comes to protecting another race that your entire town despises. Another example of courage is when Atticus protects Tom Robinson in the prison room. In the prison room, an angry mob of white men rushed in to kill Tom Robinson. Atticus, Jem, and Scout remained in the prison all night to protect Tom Robinson and could have been killed by the mob. Instead of having Scout, Jem, and Atticus run, Jem steps in front of the crowd to protect Atticus from the crowd. The crowd then runs over Jem and Scout gets in their way, Scout then tries to reason with the crowd and succeeds. This courageous act saved Atticus and Tom Robinson from being killed in the prison room that night. “Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts once, remember?" This is a quote from the story on page 153; the quote tells readers that Scout is trying to convince Mr. Cunningham to go home and away from Atticus and