Throughout the movie, it is easy to see how prejudice advances through the stages. First it was antilocution, or verbal attacks. All of the boys are being prejudice, although it may not be on purpose, by saying phrases such as "he Jew'd him down" and "always trying to get something for nothing, and he's not even Jewish." A more obvious, and intentional form of antilocution would be when the housemaster said, "I will not have a jungle in my home" when the black music was playing, or the bathroom scene when Dillan makes a joke saying, "its hard to miss a heb." After they found out David was Jewish, the started to avoid, him his roommate was clearly uncomfortable around him and Sally stopped returning his phonecalls. Eventually the prejudice progressed to discrimination, for example, with the sign saying "Go Home Jew," with a swastika painted on it, and physical attack, such as when he was met at the diner by the anti-Semites wearing leather jackets, which led to a fight. The first four stages of prejudice were all evident in the film. The film shows that prejudice is often because of the ignorance of people about a particular group. It was quite clear that the individuals that were making all the jokes and comments that were not appropriate were very unaware of what Jewish people were actually like, or very misinformed about them. Most of them had never even met a Jewish individual before, so they had nothing to base their stereotypical comments on. All three conditions making prejudice wrong were met throughout the movie. The rights of David were threatened on a daily basis after they found out he was Jewish, many of their comments were illogical and showed stereotypical thinking and many were unwilling to accept any new information about David, all they focused on was the fact that he was Jewish. This movie definitely showed that the bases of peo
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