English writer humanist, William Hazlitt, famously wrote "prejudice child ignorance." The works class read summer, Snow August Zeitoun, themes related dangers prejudice. In a -written essay analyze Dave Eggers Pete Hamill criticize prejudice work.
Prejudice and hate in New York City and New Orleans:
Snow in August vs. Zeitoun
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
-William Hazlitt, English writer and humanist
The essence of prejudice can be found in the word's etymology. To be prejudiced is to 'pre-judge' something, based upon assumptions that are not based in the here and now. To be prejudiced against someone because of his or her race or religion is to judge the individual by pre-existing suppositions, often based in ignorance and what is falsely considered 'common sense' knowledge. In the case of Snow in August, the Irish-American residents of the neighborhood where the protagonist Michael Devlin lives pre-judge the Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Hirsch because of his religion and the fact he is a recent immigrant from a land they know nothing about. In Zeitoun by David Eggers, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-American resident of New Orleans is apprehended by police during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Because...
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