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Racism In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Racism was the very idea why Tom Robinson was killed for his actions. To Kill a MockingBird was an emotional book written by the great author Harper Lee. Author Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926; her mother suffered mental illnesses and her father was a lawyer in Alabama. Some of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird is Scout, Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia, and Aunt Alexandra. The environment of this story is a small town south of Alabama called Maycomb.In Maycomb there is racism, violence, and poverty in this County. Atticus did endangered himself, and his children, but he still did his best to help Tom Robinson’s case. Atticus endangered himself, because of the case he took. Atticus needed to help him and he wanted to try him. “Simply because
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