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    Back in 1930s‚ racism was rampant through the Southern American states. A novel ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee is about the issues raised in a small town Maycomb‚ in Alabama‚ in Southern part of U.S.A. the idea of racial inequality and prejudice are developed in the text through the use of dialogue and the situation that the character was involved. Through this development the readers are able to be aware of how racism affected people in Maycomb and how rife the racism was back in 1930s.

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ numerous symbols and themes are present throughout the novel. Through the good and evil in a town such as Maycomb‚ nobility and courageous were not the easiest attributes to fulfill; however‚ for Atticus‚ Jem and Scout‚ these traits came quite easily with time. As Ambrose Redmoon had said‚ “Courage is not the absence of fear‚ but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear.” That quote directly relates to To Kill a Mockingbird and the Finch family

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    Abstract"To kill a Mockingbird" was written by Harper Lee to criticize discrimination and prejudice to black people. Harper Lee ’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel which is about white lawyer Atticus Finch who defends an innocent African American man accused of raping a white woman. The novel is narrated through eyes of a child whose name is Scout. Harper Lee narrates nonsense of prejudice and discrimination through the events characters face. The most important character who suffers from prejudice and discrimination

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    preferred Native Americans and whites the same‚ so the way I took it is that I’m not prejudice against Native Americans. Yes‚ I do think that the results were valid; I do wish that they were easier to understand but the test was actually fun I have never taken a test of prejudice before and it was really interesting. I do not think that measuring prejudice would be that easy‚ because there are dishonest people in the world that may not want others to know that they are prejudice. Other forms of

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    a town where social classes and The Great Depression has dominated‚ in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Jean Louise “Scout” Finch allows the readers to see past the preconceived ideas of Maycomb and view through the eyes of a 5 year old‚ inquisitive girl who has nothing more to offer than amiable intentions. Scout has been sheltered growing up‚ not from equality and acceptance‚ yet from the world’s prejudice actions. For instance‚ the naive child has a shortage of vocabulary that is used in the

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    To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Lee takes you back to the 1930s in the Deep South where color of skin mattered and when a white man’s word went against the word of a Negro‚ prejudice wins. Harper Lee articulately created a portrayal of a small town where nobody was exactly good or evil. Atticus shows us what real courage and goodness looks like. His character’s core values remain the same during the whole story and are unchanged throughout the entire book. When

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    TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD SPEECH “Some Negroes lie‚ some Negroes are immoral‚ some Negroes are not to be trusted around women – black or white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men”. That was a quote by Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is a man who always tries to do what is right. In the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ a major theme is racism. An innocent black man is unfairly charged for raping a white girl. Throughout the book we learn about Atticus’ views

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    In Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the reader is introduced to the theme of racial prejudice through the experiences of the characters Scout and Jem Finch. The story is told from the perspective of Scout. In Toni Morrison’s novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ the reader is also introduced to the theme of racial prejudice through the experiences of Pecola Breedlove and Claudia MacTeer. The story is told through the perspective of Pecola Breedlove‚ and Claudia MacTeer. Both of the novels show different

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    The Power of Moral Courage The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28‚ 1926‚ in Monroeville‚ Alabama‚ a town very similar in ways to Maycomb‚ the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Like Scout’s father‚ Harper Lee’s father was also a lawyer of the town. Lee’s childhood friend novelist Truman Capote had given her the inspiration to create the character Dill. Harper Lee had mention that To Kill a Mockingbird was not just intended to portray

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    To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee is about the journey of Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch‚ an innocent good hearted five year old child with no experiences with the evils of the world. Through out the novel Scout grows and learns as she encounters the world in new light as she grows up during the depression in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama in the USA. Harper Lee intentionally directs the reader to take the point of view of Scout so they can experience the unbiased perspective of her. Lee manipulates

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