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Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee is a novel set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. A major event in the novel is the court case of Tom Robinson, a man who has been accused of rape. Maycomb is a town where everybody knows everybody and prejudices are common, especially regarding race. Since nearly the whole town is prejudiced, the major conflicts in the novel were created by Maycomb itself. Prejudices cause hatred for people by association. For example, although the social norm in the town of Maycomb was to be racist, Atticus chose to view everybody as an equal, and a large number of people in the town did not respect him because of that. Even his own family is not supportive of what he does. At Christmas, Francis
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