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Examples Of Hypocrisy In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Hypocrisy is something that no human on this planet has been, is, or ever will be, completely immune to. While hypocrisy may not be a crime in and of itself, it can permit and justify crimes in the mind of the wrongdoer. The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are no exception. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the motif that people are ignorant to their own faults or mistakes through the characters Bob Ewell, Grace Merriweather, and Aunt Alexandra. Bob Ewell is shown to be ignorant of his mistakes through the repetitive mistakes and actions he makes in the book. One of Bob Ewell’s kids, Burris, is about to leave the school for the rest of the year after the first day. Burris’s teacher doesn’t understand
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