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To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: A Literary Analysis

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The novel To Kill a Mockingbird may seem to be a pleasant tale about a young southern girl, but if one takes a deeper look into the story then many deeper-level themes and concepts will begin to emerge. The story is one of growing up, learning to understand others, and most of all the tragedy and incomprehension of the depths of racism in a small southern town. This racism drove the inhabitants of the town devoid of reasoning, to the point of killing a black man on spurious charges. The name of the man who the town slaughtered was Tom Robinson. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, characterizes Tom Robinson as a black man who symbolizes the effects of southern racism in America while using a historical perspective.
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