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Tim Johnson In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee manipulates the character of Tim Johnson to represent the social fabric of Maycomb by showing how the citizens act towards racism. Taking place in Alabama, during the 1930s, the world still sees a separation between the blacks and whites. Blacks were still highly subjugated people who were not permitted to appear talking publically with whites. Tim Johnson, a rabid dog, symbolizes the prejudiced and segregated ways of the people in Maycomb towards the blacks and defenders of black like Atticus Finch. Tim Johnson used to be happy and healthy, however one day, he gets infected with a disease. The disease symbolizes the harmful spreading of racism and prejudice throughout Maycomb and the world. Diseases take
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