To Kill Mockingbird - Racism

             Written in the late 1920s To Kill A Mockingbird is one of our most favourite classics. Written by Harper Lee, born in Monroeville, Alabama, Was a person who was brought up in a very law orientated family with her father being a lawyer, she eventually studied law. She portrays the ideas of symbolism, racism and childhood. The Book was published in the 1960s to great acclaim and became very popular.
             The book is set in the small quiet town of Maycomb and the time is about the beginning of the Great Depression. There was much tension between the Negros and the pale faced people and slavery was still a common thing. The Main theme I want to talk about is the prejudice which she portrayed very seriously and is maybe one of the foundations of the book.
             The two main victims to the prejudice in the book are the characters, Arthur (Boo) Radley and Tom Robinson. Arthur, or Boo to nearly every one in Maycomb, is the mysterious person in the book. Is he good? Is he bad? As a child rumours said he was an evil child or as Scout describes him as; "A Malevolent Phantom". This is a very good way for he was never seen and the rumours of him mutilating pets and chickens were spread around (this was untrue though). Although it was said that he stabbed his fathers leg with a pair of scissors and was obsessed with a scrapbook. Boo is very vividly described by Jem;
             "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch..." "There was a long scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped and he drooled most the time"
             The semicolons between the sentences made the list sound more dramatic and the word choice to make the list sound gruesome. Boo however was not as scary as everyone thought however for after the various meetings and close escapes in the final chapters of the book, about chapter 28-29 he appears and sav
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