To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, is an excellent book for all young people to read. It teaches us all a lesson of prejudice against colored people in the South. To fully understand the issue, Harper Lee uses terms that people would use derogatorily towards black people. Early in the novel, Harper Lee introduces Atticus as a lawyer, who defends Negroes to the best of his abilities. As the novel progresses she touches on how Negroes are hated in Maycomb and finally in the end, she shows just how far a town can go against a Negro man.

Atticus is one of Maycomb’s primary lawyers and he “derived a reasonable income from the law (p 5).” He went to “Montgomery to read law (p. 4)” and his first two clients were the last two people hung in the Maycomb County jail. Many people throughout Maycomb dub him “nigger-lover” because he usually defended Negroes.

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Tom had been accused of

raping Mayella Ewell.

“He [Tom Robinson] got it [his left arm] caught in a cotton gin…when he was a boy (p.

The lesson of prejudice in To Kill A Mockingbird, is very strong and shows us how not to make the same mistake that the town of Maycomb had made. Tom Robinson was her daily reminder of what she did. …he took the oath and stepped into the witness chair (p. There were definitely finger marks on her gullet (p. The main plot of To Kill a Mockingbird, is the trial of Tom Robinson. What did she do? She tempted a Negro. The lesson of prejudice is the redeeming value behind this novel because it shows everyone how terrible something like one’s prejudices can be. She must put Tom Robinson away from her. “…she was bunged up on the right side of her face (p. As he raised his right hand, the useless one fell off.

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