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Examples Of Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Griffin Barnes
Professor Strine
Argument paper
6 March 2023

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a very real story about how our world, and the people in it, treat others. This world is full of racism, hatred, sexism and so much more evil things that don’t need to even exist. The main theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is The Coexistence of Good and Evil and how the morals and values that people possess are used throughout the novel. Humans are born good in the sense that they do what's in their best interest. By nature, humans are born innocent as they only know what is rewarding and what is detrimental. People are essentially good, until they meet a perspective of evil. But if they are truly good, goodness will prevail.
It is shown that the loss of innocence in children is portrayed when Articus takes a case of an innocent African-American that the town convicts before the trial has even begun, as the small town has a rampant mindset of racism. In this case it is shown how the beliefs of the townspeople have transferred to Scout, she has unknowingly accepted them as she believes that they are social norms and when she thinks of Dolphus Raymond as a “sinful man” because he associates himself with black people and “had mixed children and didn’t care …show more content…

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