This essay outlines the presence and nature of prejudice and discrimination, exploring their causes and effects in the texts "The Green Mile", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Bend it Like Beckham". Prejudice and Discrimination In Texts In the film The Green Mile and the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, which display racial prejudice, and the film Bend It Like Beckham that addresses sexism, authors have drawn the conclusions that prejudice and discrimination can be caused …showed first 75 words of 1909 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1909 total…I didn't do it. There was no way I could. They wouldn't let me." (John Coffey The Green Mile) They show further that this can cause marginalisation, division and isolation. The composers challenge the responder to employ tolerance when dealing with people because "you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." (p33 To Kill A Mockingbird)