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Examples Of Foil Characters In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Respect in “To Kill a Mockingbird” Authors use foil characters in their work to show the strengths and weaknesses of other (main) Characters. Some famous examples of foil characters are Romeo and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby. Sometimes there is more than one like in William Shakespeare's play “Julius Caesar” in which Cassius is a foil to Brutus and Brutus is a foil to Antony.
To make this work the Author takes a minor character and puts one of their personality traits about the opposite of a main character. In the fictional novelTo kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus Finch is reserved, respectful and a great father, completely opposite from Mayella Ewell’s father, Robert (Bob) Ewell. Some
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