Examples Of Scapegoat In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Goats Come In Black and White In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee it shows the use of using a black person as a scapegoat for crimes someone else did. White people should be against using black people as scapegoats because they get pinned for the crimes they did not commit, the person who did the crime gets away with it, and it also affects the community that the person who is used as the scapegoat was involved in. In the book Tom Robinson is used as the scapegoat for a rapeing a white girl the cops are called and the father of the girl says that it was Tom Robinson. Tom is then sent to court and Atticus, father of Jem and Scout is assigned to the case to defend Tom. Tom Robinson knew the girl who he allegedly raped