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To Kill A Mockingbird Right Or Wrong

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In the context of childhood development, growth is defined as growth in psychological capacity. Both processes are dependent on genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors. With all that being said, the process of growth and change takes place between birth and maturity. 'Right' is the action that is socially acceptable and in accordance with social values, while 'wrong' is conduct that is adverse to the socially accepted behavior or how society often gets who is and isn’t innocent wrong.‘To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, showing how good and evil can exist within a single community or individual and show the acts against a certain group. Tom Robinson is a person who was considered …show more content…

In the novel “To kill a mockingbird” chapter 9-11 is filled with Atticus having to defend himself against the rumors going on about him, Atticus says, "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win." (Lee 63). Atticus is referring to the deep-rooted racism in Maycomb County, although the novel is set nearly seventy years after the abolition of slavery, prejudice against black people is still alive in America, especially in Deep South states like Alabama. Atticus is saying that racism is what has already "licked" Robinson's chances of a fair trial. Despite of that Atticus isn’t going to simply give up and not try to win the case because it wouldn’t be fair to Tom Robinson who already has a disadvantage to the …show more content…

Tom Robinson is considered a mockingbird because he was slaughtered for doing nothing but trying to live his life, “...There’s a black boy dead for reason” (Lee 233). In the quote when it talks about the "senseless slaughter," and the unreasonable, unjustifiable death, it relates to Tom because he is being punished for his false accusations, and it relates to an innocent mockingbird being killed. Tom Robinson symbolizes an innocent fragile songbird because he does no harm to society, his voice is ignored by almost everyone, and he gets shot and killed just like an innocent fragile songbird which reaches the theme of the novel, ‘To kill a mockingbird’.The book exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially

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