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God Lost To The Devil In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Stereotypes and generalization about afro Americans have developed gradually since slavery time in 1619 and prejudices against black community is still growing since then. The novel “To kill a mockingbird is based on a real story of Harper Lee’s real life in the Great depression (1929) times when she was just a little kid observing her family and the people in her town. After many years, Lee decided to write about her life when she was kid and her book came out in 1960s. The book was especially meant to show how bad prejudices can be, because of this, she thinks avoiding prejudices could be relevant for future generation, so that is exactly what she is writing about, also prejudices in “To kill a mockingbird”. Is “To kill …show more content…

This quote is one of the most important quotes and one of the most important metaphors in the book. The quote describes the life of several characters in the book. The metaphor might be about innocent persons, who are described as mockingbirds. The first time this quote gets used in the book is when Atticus makes an attempt to make Jem understand that he is not old enough to get a gun, because he does not know which people is the “mockingbird”. Later in the book the author presents Tom Robinson who is the “mockingbird”. Tom is accused for having raped a white woman named Mayella. One might think that Tom Robinson is already dead after being accused for rape, because early in the book one can suggest that the majority of the people have prejudices against black people. Including children’s and teachers does have prejudices against black people. The reader can understand this when Scout’s teacher criticises Hitler’s ideology and does not seem to care about the same way of thinking against black people that happens in her own city. Another reason for why one might think Maycomb city is prejudice is this quote "there's something in our world that makes men lose their heads --they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life”. For this purpose, every lawyer knew they could not win such a hard

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